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18 MBCGreenComposting, expanded recycling, and a community garden reduce MBC’s carbon footprint

20 Rethinking the RecessionMary Baldwin women create a culture of confidence during a national crisis

26 Eastern ConnectionPartnerships, exchanges ‘prepare students for future’

“The precision; the professionalism; theaccuracy in their march was beautiful towatch. The pride that they showed wasamazing! Never have I seen such aperformance — so perfectly executed.

Prior to yesterday, I had not heard ofyour college … however, I shall becertain to let everyone I know —particularly young persons — of yourhigh standards of excellence.”

— excerpted from a letter to President Pamela Foxfrom Sue Culshaw, an observer along the route forNew York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, in which theVirginia Women’s Institute for Leadership representedMary Baldwin College for the seventh consecutive year

DEPARTMENTS3 President’s Message

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33 Class Columns

ON THE COVER:One of the many fun waysexchange students connect withthe MBC community, the annualInternational Festival highlightsthe college’s extensive, andexpanding, partnerships with Asia.PHOTO BY WOODS PIERCE

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FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK

Claiming our Women-Centered Heritage

Mary Baldwin College today isboth a college of the future andone with a rich and remarkablelegacy. We have boldly created

our way forward for nearly 170 years. Everyday I am inspired by our Baldwin women —our current students and all of our alumnaewho embody our mission, unchanged since1842, empowering each woman with the confi-dence to lead, the compassion to serve, and thecourage to change the world.

I clearly understand the national pictureand I can state with unequivocal convictionthat MBC has weathered the recent economicstorm better than many other institutions. Infact, we are in a position of great opportunity.

I have faith in our future in large part

because of the remarkable minds and talent ofcolleagues and the entire Mary BaldwinCollege community. We share passion and pur-pose. We make the most of our strengths. Weshare abiding respect for the union of traditionand innovation. The return on investment ofour collective time, talent, and treasures ismanifest in the transformation of each studentto become her best self.

Julia’s List is one result of such thinking.We instituted this special scholarship namedfor our second founder, Mary Julia Baldwin,because we understood how difficult payingfor college could be for families under addi-tional financial stress caused by the globalrecession. In the past, most scholarship supporthas been granted for the first year at Mary

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2010–11 Margaret E. McDermid ’95, chair

M. Sue Whitlock ’67, vice chairAremita R. Watson, secretary

Pamela FoxPamela Leigh Anderson ’84

Thomas Bryan BartonCharles T. Baskervill

Charlotte Jackson Berry ’51 Sally Armstrong Bingley ’60

Lady Appleby Bird ‘68H.C. Stuart CochranTracey L. Cones ’82

Nancy Payne Dahl ’56Johnie Davis

Margaret Wren De St. Aubin ’81 Conrad Doenges II

Nancy Mayer Dunbar ‘60 Kelly Huffman Ellis ’80

Sarah A. FlanaganBertie Deming Heiner

Mabel Fetterman Held ’76 Joanne IngallsJames D. Lott

Susan A. McLaughlinJane Harding Miller ’76

John A. Nolde, Jr.Sherri Sharpe ’99

Karen ShermanC. Hunt Shuford, Jr.

Janet Russell Steelman ’52 Susan A. Stover ’85

Kellie Warner ’90 Carolyn Amos Yokley ’73

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Dr. Pamela Fox, president

MBC Stimulus Package Produces Bold Results Mary Baldwin College’s bottom line has always beenabout making quality liberal arts education accessible, andthe nation’s most recent economic plunge only served toheighten that need. In spring 2009, the college redirectedapproximately $700,000 toward student financial aid. TheBoldly Baldwin Stimulus Package was a threefold effort:offering $2,000 to new students who chose one of thecollege’s signature Leadership Gateways when theyenrolled; creating dozens of paid ChangemakerInternships; and providing additional aid to returning stu-dents who demonstrated academic excellence and needthrough Julia’s List.• 61 of the 65 students who received the first round of

Julia’s List scholarships returned to MBC in fall 2009.The group’s retention rate was notably higher thanother non-seniors who started last year with at leasta 3.0 grade point average (the criterion for the award).

• The college has continued to set new records for thenumber of applications received since the introduc-tion of Leadership Gateways — another componentof the Boldly Baldwin Stimulus Package. MBC recei-ved 2,145 applications for about 280 freshman spotsin fall 2009, and set a new record with 3,127 applica-tions by the end of the fall 2010 deadline.

• More than 90 students participated in ChangemakerInternships in 2009–10, according to Dixie Daniel,financial aid counselor. The positions range from coor-dinating fundraisers as an employee at a localwomen’s health organization to working at Staunton’sCommunity Childcare Center to serving in ResidenceLife at MBC as a peer educator and events coordina-tor. All offer career-building experiences and serve theon-campus and regional community.

Baldwin and continued in subsequent years.Julia’s List, on the other hand, rewards cur-rent high-achieving students with financialneed, giving them additional help so that theycan complete their studies.

We introduced Julia’s List in spring2009 as part of our Boldly Baldwin StimulusPackage. The program has been highly suc-cessful in keeping good students at MaryBaldwin — students like Kara Jenkins ’11, aGlobal Honors Scholar who is StudentGovernment Association president this year.With such excellent results, we will continueJulia’s List for this year.

This is just one example of how wework to focus resources where they reallycount. On a much larger scale is our launchof the Schools of Excellence with the begin-ning of the new academic year, a forward-looking, integrative approach to higher edu-cation for the 21st century.

Our 2004 strategic plan, ComposingOur Future 2014, has served the collegeremarkably well, despite the fact that theworld has changed around us a great dealsince then. We have revitalized our residen-tial College for Women, institutedLeadership Gateways, established theSpencer Center and integrated civic andglobal engagement into all majors, enhancedacademic excellence through 19 new andenhanced programs now housed in our sig-nature Schools of Excellence, attractedrecord numbers of applicants, and achievedrecord enrollment in all programs.

Our distinguished history of innova-tion and quality is a fulcrum for leveragingour considerable strengths and taking MaryBaldwin College to a new level. Over thesummer a group of faculty leaders and theExecutive Staff have been working to createa new strategic blueprint to do just that. I

look forward to sharing the details withyou, in person whenever possible, and infuture written communications.

Our vision statement will claim ourwomen-centered heritage. This ethos is nota philosophy of the past but the promise ofthe future. It drives academic success andthe interactions of faculty and staff, and isembodied in our alumnae. We embrace andcelebrate the unique attributes of womenthat are essential in solving the complexproblems of global interdependence. Ourmotivating force is to validate, reward, andfoster the qualities of women that fuel solu-tions and change: collaboration, creativity,compassion, and the drive to nurture life.

I believe in Mary Baldwin College.Please join me in fueling and evangelizing ourlegacy as we move toward our bicentennial.

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Mary Baldwin’s partnership with anorganization committed to learning howbeliefs relate to actions is on track to cre-ate more opportunities that support thecollege’s mission of global engagement.

“I’ve met a lot of your faculty and afew students … I’m learning more aboutwhat they’re interested in and some of theprojects you have here,” said CraigShealy, founder and executive director ofInternational Beliefs and Values Institute(IBAVI). “I believe in your mission.”

Shealy and President Pamela Foxsigned an agreement in December 2009solidifying the alliance between thecollege and IBAVI. The non-profit,non-partisan organization exploreslinks between beliefs and values and theactions, policies, and practices influencedby them around the world through inter-disciplinary research, education, andservice.

“We study how we’re built and howlife’s experiences affect the way we see

the world,” Shealy said. During a visit with MBC students,

faculty, and staff, Shealy revealed howIBAVI collects and analyzes data. He alsoshared some thought-provoking insightson topics ranging from capital punish-ment to displaying the Confederate flag.

Data collected by the IBAVI teamcould deepen our understanding aboutthe roots of global conflict, an ambitiouslong-term goal in which MBC is eager toplay a part. For the college’s more imme-diate future, however, the informationcould hold the key to creating moreenriching study abroad programs andother opportunities for students and fac-ulty. It is likely that IBAVI and theSpencer Center for Civic and GlobalEngagement will co-host a conference atMary Baldwin within the next year.

In addition to bringing speakers tothe Spencer Center, Shealy also hasintroduced Fulbright scholar andKenyan Maasai artist Nicholas Sironka

to MBC. Sironka’s work complementstwo other MBC artists-in-residence,Global Rhythms musician SrinivasKrishnan and peace activist ClaudiaBernardi, who recently wrote an essayfor Beliefs and Values, IBAVI’s scholarlyjournal, and is the most recent recipientof the organization’s Sustainable Visionsand Values Award.

Director of Civic Engagement SteveGrande, Director of InternationalPrograms Heather Ward and Professorof Philosophy Roderic Owen havejoined IBAVI’s executive board.

“IBAVI is a wonderful complementto the liberal arts mission of MBC andthe specific goals and programs of theSpencer Center,” Owen said. “With ourshared emphases on cross-culturalunderstanding … this promises to be anenergetic and creative partnership.”

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STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANESome of the college’s most valuable — and useful —publications have been digitized and are availableonline, including all issues of the Mary Baldwin CollegeMagazine, editions of the Bluestocking going as far backas the 1880s, and histories of the college that cover1842 to 2003. In all, an impressive 28,000 pages of MBCdocuments have found a new home atwww.archive.org/details/marybaldwin.

MAJOR (AND MINOR) NEWS In 2009–10 MBC faculty approved newmajors in American studies, criminal justice,and Renaissance studies and a new minor in sexuality and gender studies.

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Students Give Big Recognition to Little House After capturing the imagination of MBCstudents for years, that tiny brick build-ing at the heart of campus has a newlease on life.

In late January, members of theExecutive Committee of the StudentGovernment Association (SGA) movedtheir offices from Spencer to Little House,which is situated next to Rose Terrace.

“It was really exciting to have ourown space,” said 2009–10 SGA PresidentErin Paschal ’10. “We appreciate being inLittle House. It has always played animportant role in student life.”

There seems to be no definitive account of its use through the years but,according to an article in the January 12, 1945, issue of Campus Comments, thehouse was built in 1870 and served as a business office, a carriage house, a ser-vant’s cottage, and a lumber house. In more recent years, others recall male visi-tors staying at Little House and class presidents living in the demure structure.

“That’s where the guys that visited us were allowed to stay overnight,”wrote Helen Muccitelli ’94 when news about Little House’s new use was postedon the college’s Facebook page. Debbie Wolfe Shea ’77 chimed in, “That used tobe the home of the junior class president.”

When Alison Kaufmann ’07 was a student, students and administratorsagreed Little House would make a perfect location for SGA.

“We began building enthusiasm and even had a campaign where weraised pennies for Little House,” Kaufmann said. “Our slogan was ‘Give a little,for Little House.’”

“That was always my favorite little place, and I was afraid that they weregoing to tear it down. I’m so glad it’s going to be used now,” added SarahHatfield ’04.

Psychologist Leads Research as IBAVI Director

Listening to Armed Forces RadioNetwork while driving to Naples,Italy, Craig Shealy heard NewtGingrich advocate putting childrenof welfare mothers in orphanages.

It was 1994, and the then-assistant professor at theUniversity of Maryland’s interna-tional campus in Germany had

not only worked as a psychologist in the United States,Korea, and Germany but also had written a dissertationdealing with the topic.

“I took my data, settled down and said, ‘I’m goingto write about this,’” Shealy recalled.

Shealy’s article provided an in-depth analysis of theimplications and complexities of the orphanage proposalfor children and families, and was published in AmericanPsychologist, the flagship journal of the AmericanPsychological Association. This and other publication ofShealy’s work related to this research ultimately led himto a position at James Madison University in 1997.

Thirteen years later, Shealy remains at JMU asprofessor of graduate psychology. He is also founder andexecutive director of the International Beliefs and ValuesInstitute, or IBAVI, which moved its headquarters toMary Baldwin in December as a complement to the col-lege’s Spencer Center for Civic and Global Engagement.

Shealy has been featured in a variety of publica-tions and scholarly forums in the United States andaround the world and has chaired several national sym-posia and conferences. A licensed clinical psychologist,he received his PhD in clinical psychology from AuburnUniversity in 1992. He is recipient of the Early CareerAward from the APA’s division of psychotherapy; aMadison Scholar at JMU; a Nehru Chair at the MaharajaSayajirao University of Baroda, India; and a NationalRegister Legacy of Excellence Psychologist.

SGA leaders have given a new purpose — and a personal touch — to Little House.

Need More News?ADMISSIONS RECORDS BROKEN On the heels of the news that more high school students haveapplied to the College for Women than ever before, MBCopened its doors to a record number of prospective studentsMarch 26-28 for Future Freshman Weekend. Nearly 200 stu-dents and their families explored academic programs, learnedabout the college’s Leadership Gateways, met with faculty, andinquired about financial aid opportunities.

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Read more about the stories above, and many more, at www.mbc.edu/news.

Brittany Bledsoe ’07 stood underneath a support

beam in her apartment in Port-au-Prince for the

longest 37 seconds of her life while Haiti’s 7.0-

magnitude earthquake crumbled the building

around her in January 2010. Kelly Mann ’99

watched coverage from her home and workplace

at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York, and wait-

ed only a few days to board a plane bound for the

devastated country. Amanda Hodges ’97 volunteered for a medical mis-

sion to the country as soon as she learned about the opportunity.

In the quake’s aftermath, Mary Baldwin College reached out to disas-

ter victims by organizing fundraisers and contributing to the American Red

Cross, and learned from the tragedy through planned forums and casual

conversations. Few in the MBC community experienced the devastation

more powerfully than those alumnae/i on the ground in Haiti. We followed

up with them as they continued to work to heal the wounded and aid in

the country’s reconstruction.

BASKETBALL REBOUNDSThe Fighting Squirrels pounded the paintand ‘bounded the boards to finish the2009–2010 season 10–14 overall and 8–10in the USA South Athletic Conference,earning sixth place in conference stand-ings after a preseason prediction of a10th-place finish.

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONST. Lowell Lemons, associate profes-sor of education, was chosen by thestudent body to deliver MBC’s LastLecture in March. The former biolo-gy professor and superintendent ofschools used the annual tradition toshare poignant lessons from hisfamily and career in education.

NPR GIVES GLADYS PROPSMBC’s beloved mascot was, indeed, thesubject of one of the questions onNational Public Radio’s quirky quiz show“Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” in March.

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Alumnae Aid Haitians on the Front Lines

Brittany Bledsoe has worked as a politi-cal officer at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti sinceJuly 2009. She took a brief break at home inVirginia about a week and a half after thequake due to an illness and returned to Haitiin early February. While in the States, shestopped by MBC to talk with students inProfessor Gordon Bowen’s political science

courses, explaining her role as a temporarymedic and the reality of sleeping at her desk— the embassy was virtually undamaged —in the days following the earthquake.

Bledsoe has not yet had much time toprocess what she went through as a vic-tim of the earthquake while she contin-ues to serve as a relief worker, but she

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TO BE OR NOT TO BETo be … and in record time! Creative writingstudents borrowed from the famous soliloquyin Hamlet to create an online literary journal inApril. Outrageous Fortune, which transformedfrom conception to launch in just a few weeks,is the only such publication in the country pro-duced by students for students.

BRIDGING WOMEN’S RIGHTS WORLDWIDEMary Baldwin students and community members joined aworldwide effort led by Women for Women International onFebruary 21 to recognize International Women’s Day, dis-playing messages and wishes of peace for mothers, wives,sisters, and daughters in war-torn nations.


encourages people to give through theorganization Haitians Helping Haitians(donate online at www.hhelpingh.org):“It is a wonderful organization where100 percent of proceeds go to the peopleof Haiti. The director is a good friend ofmine, and she often goes with groups ofpeople to Aquin, a village along thesouth coast, to teach farmers, bee keep-ers, and shop owners how to efficientlyrun businesses. She also runs a schooland an orphanage.”

Amanda Hodges, an emergency roomnurse at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church,Virginia, heard quickly about the CommunityCoalition for Haiti’s (CCH) call for volunteersfor medical missions. Without hesitation, shesent in her name. Hodges has participated inmission trips since high school — but notmedical or international missions — and shewas confident that her experience as a nurseand commitment to service would be a posi-tive contribution to relief efforts.

“On February 3, I received an affirma-tive call from CCH and left two dayslater for Jacmel, Haiti, with a medicalteam. For the next week, we worked atSaint Michel Hospital. Most of the hos-pital was damaged, so patients werehoused in large tents on the campus.Our team set up a clinic in the medicalrecords room of the hospital. On anaverage day, we treated approximately100 patients without modern conven-iences such as electricity and our usualmedical resources such as x-rays or lab-oratory. The most pressing medicalneeds were follow-up injury care, post-operative care, routine primary caresuch as newborn and child check-ups,prenatal care, and treatment of chronichealth problems such as diabetes andheart disease. From patients andHaitian doctors, we also learned aboutdiseases common to the area such asmalaria and typhoid.

I heard many stories of loss andcourage. One woman adopted a

6-year-old she found wandering in thestreet, unable to find her family.Another woman lost her teenage sisterin the weeks after the earthquake totyphoid, and wanted us to check herbaby for the same disease. As we trav-eled to and from the hospital, damagedhomes and businesses were mixed withtents lining the streets. Due to the fre-quency of aftershocks (I felt onemyself), many Haitians are scared toreturn to their homes, but they areattempting to return to their normallives. On the Saturday we left, the streetmarket was busy and children played inthe streets. One restaurant — with mini-mal damage — still served deliciousCreole-style Caribbean lobster.

I am privileged to have served thepeople of Haiti. The suffering they haveendured is difficult to describe. They aregrateful people with amazing strength. Iwill always remember the healthcareprofessionals from around the worldand our Haitian drivers and interpreterswith whom we worked so closely.”

Kelly Mann arrived in Haiti January 20for one week to serve as a pediatrician,traveling with a group of orthopedic andtrauma surgeons from Mt. Sinai MedicalCenter. Her primary responsibility was post-operative management of children. Mannreturned to Haiti with a group from MountSinai Hospital in early May. She also plansto make additional trips through one ormore non-governmental organizations oper-ating in the country.

“I learned that the greatest contributionI could offer was not simply my medicalskill, but my ability to be versatile andto do whatever needed doing. While Iexamined patients and administered med-ications, I also checked vital signs,changed diapers, and even served food. Ihelped to develop a system of communi-cation with the various surgical teamsand encouraged the reintroduction ofpaper charting for medical care providers

working with our patients. Many people have asked me how my

education and work experiences helpedto prepare me for the challenges wefaced there. While I’m not entirely surethat anyone can ever be fully prepared towitness devastation on such a massivescale or see an already struggling nationbecome even more vulnerable, I believethat having worked and studied in placessuch as Israel, Kenya, and India offeredme a breadth of experience from whichto draw. Exposure to these medical sys-tems helped teach me how to make dowith what I have, no matter how littlethat may be.

Sometimes during my days workingin the hospital, children would bebrought to one of the pediatric tents incritical condition. Other disaster reliefvolunteers or even parents would bringthem to us for a higher level of care.Higher level of care? Early on, we didn’teven have access to electricity or oxygen,much less extensive medical support. Iremember more than once feeling analmost overwhelming desire to panic. SoI did. I would give myself five seconds tosilently feel completely scared, over-whelmed, and ill equipped to deal withthe problem in front of me. When thosefive seconds were up, I took a very deepbreath and got to work.

I couldn’t create basic resources likewater, oxygen, or electricity; I could onlywork with what was in front of me. Themost important lesson that working inHaiti taught me was acceptance. In a sit-uation in which resources range fromscarce to nonexistent, aid workers haveto accept and be at peace with the limitsof our abilities and influence.

Perhaps it is these same limitationswhich inspire me to want return to Haitiand help other resource-poor nations inthe future. As individuals, none of uscan end poverty, hunger, and natural dis-asters. By joining my efforts with thehundreds of other volunteers in Haiti,we were able to effect change that noneof us could have achieved alone.”

A longtime member of the MBC biologyfaculty, Bonnie Hohn, died December 10 atage 68.

Not long after the news broke ofHohn’s passing, Professor Emerita LesleyNovack and others who knew Hohn setout to share memories of their friend onthe Mary Baldwin College Facebook page.Many friends mentioned Hohn’s love ofanimals and mischievous sense of humor.A common theme was her belovedmenagerie that, over time, included dogs,cats, ferrets, many birds, chinchillas, mice,and hedgehogs. The stories of generosity,humor, and compassion they recountedwould sound familiar to some. For others,those words telegraphed the message:Bonnie Hohn was someone you wouldlove to know.

“Bonnie Hohn was and is an unforget-table person who enlivened every aspect ofcollege life for students, faculty, and staff.She was truly many different people all con-tained within one wonderful package,”

Novack wrote in an emotional message. Novack recalled that Hohn would

often buy for her sister one place settingeach of different, elegant china patterns.Sally Hohn was bedridden from illness, andBonnie told friends that she wanted to bringin the outside world to her sister.

“Almost every day, Sally would beserved her food on different plates. This wasonly one way, among many, that Bonnietried to make every day of Sally’s life funand varied.”

Others flooded the MBC site withmemories of Hohn’s classes, and the impactshe had on their college experience. HerBiology of Women class was one of themost popular at Mary Baldwin. At onepoint, about 20 percent of enrolled studentstook the course.

“She was a wonderful professor, per-son, and champion of students and animals.A true higher educator,” wrote MaryMargaret Marshall ’99. “She elevated herstudents’ awareness of much-needed infor-mation for women.”

“[She taught] generations of MaryBaldwin students about women’s healthissues in her characteristic breezy and inten-tionally shockingly direct manner,” saidLundy Pentz, associate professor of biology.

Hohn earned a bachelor’s degree fromOhio Wesleyan and a master’s degree fromUniversity of Minnesota. She continued herpostgraduate studies at Duke University,Central Michigan University, and Universityof Virginia. Professor of biology at MBCfrom 1966 until 2003, Hohn was recog-nized with emeritus status upon retirementand made contributions to Mary Baldwinthat helped shape academics at the college.Her marine science summer program was aforerunner of May Term.

In addition to teaching a wide rangeof biology courses — from botany to ani-mal behavior — Hohn also dabbled in

gardening, an interest she shared with herfather, who cared for the greenhouse inPearce as a gift to the college until his death.She eventually developed a horticulturecourse and designed several plantingsaround the campus and in the community.

Hohn’s research was determined byher student’s interests — ranging from thegenetics of snail shell color variations tothe self-anointing behavior of pygmyhedgehogs — rather than a single focus ona narrow topic.

A founding member of the DaffodilSociety, Hohn was instrumental in bringingworld-renowned marine biologist Charles“Stormy” Atkins Mayo III to Mary Baldwinfor the 1995 Mary E. Humphreys BiologyLecture. In 2001 she established the HohnFamily Memorial Endowment for StudyAbroad, which has allowed students tobroaden their interests in countries such asCyprus, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Japan.

A memorial service for Hohn was heldJanuary 9 in Staunton.

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ATHLETES SHOW STRENGTH AND GRACEFor the second year in a row, the USASouth conference named the FightingSquirrels winners of its SportsmanshipTrophy. MBC athletes secured the title bygarnering top votes by their peers in volleyball, soccer, and softball.

A BETTER ‘BUSY’ SIGNAL In mid-March, with more than three months still togo in their 2009-2010 fundraising cycle, studentcallers in the Spencer Society had handwritten 2,550letters to donors and raised more than $112,000 inpledges for the Annual Fund — nearly as much asthe total raised by the group in fiscal year 2009. Bymid-May, the Student Phonathon exceeded its$175,000 goal, ultimately raising $188,000.

SGA (INTER)ACTIONA weekly online poll, updated Web site(www.mbc.edu/student/sga), and a blogmaintained by president Erin Paschal ’10(http://mbcpres.blogspot.com) boostedStudent Government Association connections with the student bodythroughout 2009-10.

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Professor Remembered for Love of People and Animals By Liesel Nowak

To recognize BonnieHohn’s many years onthe biology faculty atMary Baldwin, the col-lege honored her duringReunion Weekend byplanting a tree in hermemory. Friends select-ed a “weeping Sally”(Salix caprea) to plant inthe flower bed near thePearce greenhouse — itwas the same speciesHohn had thought ofplanting in memory ofher sister, Sally Hohn.

ONLINEHIGHLIGHT

Visit MBC’s Facebook page to read more reactions to the passing of influential community members Joe Garrison, Bonnie Hohn and John Kelley at www.facebook.com/marybaldwincollege, click on “notes” to read Lesley Novack’s full message.

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MARCHING INTO HISTORYMary Baldwin College’s Virginia Women’sInstitute for Leadership added BobMcDonnell’s gubernatorial parade to its grow-ing list of high-profile appearances around thestate and nation in January 2010. The corpshas now been in formation for inauguralparades for four Virginia governors.

PUTTING HEART INTO ITMBC’s celebration of Women’s History Monthshowcased interest in women’s health aroundthe world. Among the activities that highlight-ed this year’s theme “Women’sHeart/Women’s Health” were student presen-tations that focused on female health careand a presentation by women’s long-distancerunning pioneer Henley Gabeau.

Every now and then college students getthe opportunity to learn from a professorwho is special. A teacher whom the stu-dent, when looking back on her collegecareer even 20 or 30 years later, will notonly remember vividly, but will still beable to pick up the phone and call. Onethe student will invite to her wedding orinto her home for dinner. Dr. Joseph M.Garrison, Jr.’s ability to inspire and main-tain deep and long-lasting friendships withformer students is remarkable even in thecontext of Mary Baldwin, where close,lifelong connections are a hallmark of thecollege community.

Fondly known as Joe by many formerstudents and colleagues, the professor emer-itus passed away May 9 at age 75. Hislegacy and his passion for poetry will beremembered for years to come in theEnglish department.

“Joe was amazing; they don’t make’em like that anymore,” said Molly Petty,assistant professor of English and director

of the writing center. “He challengeddecades of English majors to read, re-read,think, and reassess their written interpreta-tions of literature.”

Margo Leach, faculty secretary, whowas long charged with the duty of deci-phering and typing Garrison’s detailed andlively junior and senior English appraisals,remembers Garrison’s time at MBC fond-ly. “He and his wife Sandra mean theworld to me and my family,” she said.“I’ll always remember him as a kind andcompassionate man.”

While at MBC, Garrison taught litera-ture, poetry, and creative writing. He had areputation as a demanding — and, forsome, fearsome — teacher. One former stu-dent, Abby Peterson ’98, posted on the col-lege’s Facebook page: “To Joe Garrison,who told me, ‘If you perform as everyoneelse, you’ll get a C. Cs are average. If youexcel, a B. If you teach me something I’venever heard, an A.’ He scrawled ‘HonorGrade’ next to the only B+ he ever gaveme, and it remains a cherished triumph inmy memory.”

When Garrison retired in 2000, anoth-er former student, GingerMudd Galvez ’73, organ-ized a surprise lunch partyfor him. “About twodozen of his students fromall over the country cameback to Staunton for aparty,” she said. “I wentto his home and broughthim out onto his porchto talk. Every minute ortwo, a former studentwould appear up thesidewalk. For the firstcouple, he would burstwith delight at seeingeach one, whisperingher name in a kind of

wonder, amazed that each was standingbefore him. After a few minutes, he realizedthis was a set-up to delight and surprisehim, and we all enjoyed a long lunch filledwith toasts, poetry, and songs.” Galvez andother former students also created a specialfund to buy poetry volumes marked by aspecial bookplate honoring Garrison andhis long career. The collection now residesin Grafton Library.

Garrison was a true renaissance man.In his free time, he played classical guitarand built musical instruments, includingCeltic harps, mountain dulcimers, andlyres. He held poetry workshops for teach-ers, students, and even prison inmates. Hepublished more than 90 poems and essaysin journals, anthologies, and books.

Garrison was fond of saying “there’s apoem in there, somewhere,” about justabout anything. Looking back at his time atMary Baldwin and the contributions hemade to the college and community, onecould certainly find at least one poem inthere somewhere, perhaps even two or three.

A celebration of Garrison’s life washeld May 20 at Covenant PresbyterianChurch in Staunton.

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English Professor Challenged, Connected With Students By Melissa Jones

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Imagine spending your junior year inMadrid, one of Spain’s most culturallydiverse and beautiful cities. It would bea year spent living with Spanish fami-lies, eating great food, exploring thecountry’s art and architecture, andlearning from some of the most respect-ed professors in Spain, all for the pur-pose of absorbing the Spanish languageand culture.

Dorothy Mulberry made this dreama reality for many Mary BaldwinCollege women.

Mulberry, who passed away May18 at age 82, taught Spanish and inter-national studies at Mary Baldwin for 36years and served as dean of the collegefor five years. When news of her deathreached her former students, it becameclear that she had created a legacy.

Mulberry came to Mary Baldwin in1958 with a mission: to develop andpromote international studies. She firm-ly believed that these areas of studywere too insular and needed to expandbeyond the MBC campus. In 1962, withthe support and vision of then-collegepresident Dr. Samuel R. Spencer Jr.,Mulberry created the Academic Year inMadrid. It was a program of the highestexcellence, conducted by the best pro-fessors in Spain, and it wasn’t just limit-ed to Mary Baldwin women.

“There would not have been a pro-gram if it wasn’t for Dorothy,” saidMary Pickett Craddock ’65. “She creat-ed a community of professors and stu-dents that was the finest junior yearabroad learning environment that I haveheard of.”

The women who participated in theMadrid program came away with muchmore than an increased awareness ofSpanish vocabulary and global issues.Their experiences changed many of theirlives forever.

“I met my husband, ManuelCordero, in our program,” said HarrietLane Cordero ’75. “He and another stu-dent from Haverford College were partof our program. For 10 years after grad-uation, I worked for an international

bank, traveling Spain and SouthAmerica, and my success had a lot to dowith my year in Madrid. Our love forSpain lives on today, and we try toreturn as often as possible.”

When asked what was the “bigdeal” about her year in Spain, AnneMcGeorge Mickerson ’69 told her chil-dren, “My year in Madrid was a yearwhen I was completely carefree, when Ilearned how much fun it was to digdeeply in exploring another culture,when I gained much self-confidence bynot only learning another language andculture but by forming lasting friend-ships there, and, finally, when I camehome with a sense that my life wasgoing to be much more exciting than Ihave ever imagined.”

For Meredith Carter Patterson ’65,the year she spent in Madrid resonatestoday. “My daughter married a wonder-ful fellow from Barcelona. They have an8-month-old boy, my grandson, whowill grow up speaking English, Catalan,and Spanish and will be living in Spainfor at least the next 16 years,” she said.“I think if it had not been for the pro-gram that Miss Mulberry set up, mydaughter would probably be living in

the United States, and she probablywould have married an American. Herhusband is a great guy, and I am verygrateful to Miss Mulberry for all she didfor us.”

To show their appreciation, manyof Mulberry’s former students cametogether in 2004 to establish theDorothy Mulberry Travel Scholarship. Ithelps students interested in the Spanishlanguage and culture to study abroad.

“Many of us feel that our year inMadrid was the most significant eventin determining our future direction inlife,” said Sara Jane Hartman ’65. “TheDorothy Mulberry Scholarship grew outof gratitude for such a valuable oppor-tunity, which, to my knowledge, has notbeen equaled. It was dedicated and pre-sented at a banquet when approximate-ly 15 of us returned to Spain withDorothy for a reunion.”

“Dorothy was dedicated to her stu-dents and to Mary Baldwin College. Sheserved both with excellence and devo-tion. She had a deep love for Spain andthe Spanish people and always missedthem,” Hartman said.

A memorial service was held inMiller Chapel on June 5.

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A man loved by many students as afather away from home passed awaylast December in his Staunton residence.

John Kelly served as the college’sdirector of security and safety for 20years and made a lasting impression onhundreds of students and colleagues.Many alumnae/i expressed their condo-lences and shared their memories onthe Mary Baldwin Facebook page.

They recalled his smile, his caringdemeanor, and advice he gave them forstaying safe on campus.

“Mr. Kelly embodied the spirit ofMary Baldwin,” wrote Beth HeffernenSucher ’83. “He was like our fatheraway from home. I am sure that he iskeeping an eye on us still.”

Professor of Asian Studies DanielMétraux knew Kelly from campus andas a member of the Staunton LionsClub. He shared a story that typifiesboth Kelly’s safety consciousness andgood humor.

“I will never forget his exasperatedface when once at the Registrar’s officeI was trying to send a fax to Japan,”Métraux wrote. “Instead of dialing theinternational code 01, I punched in911. Within 90 seconds he and twoother security people were there, soonfollowed by [two] of Staunton’s finest.He soon forgave me with a kind smile.I last saw John earlier [last] fall. I wasdriving and being tailed by a police car.My worry soon turned to laughterwhen I saw John waving at me. John,you led a good life!”

A North Carolina native, Kellyspent much of his career in the serviceof others. He served 14 years in theU.S. Air Force and worked for 21 yearsas a Staunton Reserve Police Officer, inaddition to his 20 years as MBC’s secu-rity chief. After retirement, Kellyworked as an administrative assistantin the Staunton Police Department.

Kelly also was active for manyyears in the Augusta Lions Club, as adispatcher for Staunton AugustaRescue Squad, and a member of theStaunton Parking Commission and

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Kelly Provided Watchful Eye Over Students By Liesel Nowak

John Kelly’s bond with students sometimes included taking a turn on the dance floorat Junior Dads, as he did with student Julie King in 1991.

Staunton Transportation and SafetyCommission.

In 1992, then-MBC presidentCynthia H. Tyson conferred upon Kellyhonorary alumnus status duringHomecoming weekend, an endorse-ment of the security chief’s lasting tiesto the college.

He is survived by a large family,including his wife of 43 years, ShirleyKelly. His son, John S. Kelly, Jr. wrote amessage of thanks to the MBC communi-ty for the numerous calls, cards, and visitshis father received prior to his passing.

“Dad was so deeply moved to seethat he had touched so many people insuch a positive way,” he wrote. “Theoutpouring of love and support that wasreceived from Mary Baldwin was over-whelming. May you all be blessed foryour kindness.”

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On the Friday before Commencement,there’s a buzz around the Mary Baldwincampus. Tents are positioned, rows ofchairs are straightened, programs aredelivered, and the processional line-up isrehearsed one last time. But in the midstof this controlled chaos, there is a centerof calm, a steady hand. In Pearce 216, therest of the world is shut out for a fewhours as one man works to create hisown indelible memory for students.

For years, Associate Professor ofBiology Lundy Pentz has volunteered tohand letter Latin honors and other dis-tinctions onto students’ diplomas. Pentzworks in an almost monastic setting,with only the quiet hum of a dehumidifierfor company.

“It’s been a hobby of mine since1969. It’s not a big deal, really,” says Pentz,who picked up calligraphy while workingas a costumed interpreter at ColonialWilliamsburg. Though he knows five differ-ent styles of script, Pentz uses a Gothicstyle to denote honors on MBC diplomas.Becoming mainstream in the 11th century,the script style is the common man’s styleof writing, as far as calligraphy goes. Buton seeing Pentz’s work, common is thelast word that comes to mind.

“Summa cum laude,” Pentz writeson a diploma bearing the name ofKatharine James, who excelled as apsychology major. “With Distinction,”he inscribes on a diploma for MaganWinstead, who excelled as a businessmajor.

Pentz works with a German-madePelikan Graphos pen recommended tohim many years ago by a sofer, a Jewishscribe who letters and repairs Torahscrolls. The pen is used to create awardsfor the college’s Capstone Festival as wellas the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award,but with different nib widths and inks

depending on the award and what willlook best.

On the extremely rare occasion(once or twice in at least 25 years) thatPentz makes an error, he uses a very fine,curved scalpel blade to slice away the top-most layer of the thick and tough parch-ment. “This is delicate work, and I use aNo. 3 surgeon’s scalpel handle with a No.15 blade, normally only used for eye sur-gery or similar fine work, one advantageof being a biologist,” he said. “After a littleburnishing with a bone folder, the spot isundetectable and can be lettered over.”

Although Pentz concentrates quietlyto avoid making errors, he does recalltimes when he and former dean JamesLott once jokingly tossed about ideas for“bogus” Latin honors for students whojust barely squeaked by, including onefavorite, “per cutem dentibus” or “by theskin of her teeth.”

It’s difficult to notice the differencebetween the words printed by the preciseworkings of a machine and those Pentzcreates on the parchment with his 1.25mm steel nib and fade-resistant India ink.But in today’s world of mass production,Pentz’s time-consuming work brings evenmore meaning to a cherished document.

“The hand lettering, to me, goesright along with the regalia and ‘pompand circumstance’ at Commencement,”says Sandy Sprouse, admissions andgraduation coordinator for the AdultDegree Program and an MBC alumnawhose own diploma bears Pentz’sextraordinary penmanship. “It’s just sospecial to me to have one’s academicaccomplishment rendered in that way,and so beautiful. It’s also reminiscent ofMary Baldwin’s consideration of eachand every student individually, andfocusing on each one’s success in avery personal way.”

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In the Midst of Frenzied Commencement Prep, an Island of CalmBy Liesel Nowak

Who needs mass production? MBCprofessor Lundy Pentz creates hisown assembly line to add a per-sonal touch to diplomas just hoursbefore Commencement.

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The clouds parted just long enough on May 23 for Mary Baldwinto celebrate its 168th Commencement on Page Terrace, marking arite of passage for 331 graduates.

Philanthropist and author Tracy Gary delivered an inspiringkeynote address, urging the graduating class to “see and remem-ber injustices and consider what fuels [your] passions.”

“Remember that your greatest satisfaction may be not onlyfrom the diligent and persistent reaching for systemic reflectionand change, but also along the way, the evidence of your beingsimply caring and kind,” Gary said.

In one of the college’s longstanding traditions, the AlgernonSydney Sullivan award was given to one graduating senior and anon-student for their service, character, and spiritual qualities. Thisyear’s honorees were retiring chaplain Patricia Hunt and StudentGovernment President Erin Paschal.

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“Carla Baker and I were heading toVMI for a mixer — late and rushinglike crazy. When we were almostthere, I realized that I had grabbedone blue shoe and one black shoe —different styled shoes, different heelheights and both for the same foot!”

— DENISE LANTZ YURCHAK ’95

“Every day was a memory at MBC. Ihad the time of my life at Baldwin andthink I made the best decision bygoing to MBC.”

— BRANDY HYDER ’05

“The summer before I arrived, theschool sent out a booklet to all incom-ing freshmen with fun snippets ofthings about Baldwin. I wish someonestill had that book; it was charming,and stirred great anticipation aboutbeing an incoming freshman!”

— MISSY O’NEILL ’80

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More than 300 alumnae/i and special guestsreturned to campus April 8–11 for ReunionWeekend, to celebrate memories, people, and

the place that brought them together five, 10, or even 50years ago.

Some went back to class, others volunteered for acommunity service project. They hugged, they picnicked,they honored athletic legacies, they recognized one anoth-er’s milestones, and they gave back.

At the grand dame of Reunion events, the annual din-ner and awards presentation, Alumnae/i Association Boardof Directors President Dori Akerman Stiefel ’92 announcedthat $363,169 in cash and pledges had been raised so farfrom Reunion classes. The total received from the challengeto classes — issued by the Board of Trustees and formertrustees celebrating a reunion this year — has reached$403,255 in cash gifts, exceeding the total goal of$336,000. Gifts benefit the Annual Fund, providing criticalresources for the operating budget.

Kara Jenkins ‘11, president-elect of the StudentGovernment Association, is recipient of a scholarship madepossible by the Annual Fund and told Reunion attendeesthat their donations “empower us to achieve our goals.”

While the classes of 1980 and 1990 exceeded expec-tations and the Class of 1965 had the highest participationrate, the Class of 1970 raised the most at $91,476.

“It’s a wonderful, wonderful tribute to the college,”said Board of Trustees Chair Lyn McDermid ’95. “Yourgifts to Mary Baldwin have a much greater impact thanyou’ll ever know.”

Before the Reunion dinner was over, the Alumnae/iAssociation Board of Directors threw the ultimate curveballto the woman with a penchant for planning and a way withwords. After delivering inspiring remarks to alumnae/i gath-ered in Hunt Dining Hall, President Pamela Fox took herseat and was surprised with a proclamation of honoraryalumna status by Stiefel and McDermid.

“I think there are a few times — and I don’t thinkyou’ll ever see it again — that I am speechless,” Fox said.


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“My fondest memory is by far thewonderful friends I made. I have greatmemories of the excellent faculty, thebeautiful campus, and the fabuloussetting in the gorgeous ShenandoahValley. What a terrific place to havespent those wonderful four years.”

— ANN LEVINE ’65

“Too many! Apple Day, snow, watch-ing Dr. Patrick go to class in the coldweather with his coat billowingbehind, VMI raids, challenging the pro-fessors (especially Bob Lafleur), host-ing prospectives, the beauty of thearea, being challenged to do my best.”

— LAURA BIVANS ’80

“So many wonderful memories: AppleDay and our human pyramid; visits withthe Timberlakes, dinner at Mr. Daffin’s,congregating in the dorm room with themost recent ‘goodie’ package, and, ofcourse, rooming with Ann Gordon.”

— JUDY SKINNER ’65

G LO RY DAYS : MBC Revives Athletic Hall of FameFive women were inducted into therevived Mary Baldwin CollegeAthletic Hall of Fame during ReunionWeekend. Standing before nostalgicphotos of each inductee, Director ofAthletics and Wellness SharonSpalding introduced each woman,highlighting her stellar career at MaryBaldwin and her achievements aftergraduation. A current student athletehanded each woman a plaque.

Joining long-standing hall offamers and tennis stars Cindy GoeltzWillkomm ’66, Nancy LouiseFalkenberg Muller ’67, and MaryHotchkiss Leavel ’73, were KathrynLee ’76 (basketball and fencing),Claudia Woody ’77 (basketball andequestrian), Gayla “Goldie” Dodson’84 (basketball), Rita Hundley Harris’86 (martial arts), and Karin M. Whitt’88 (tennis).

“It’s awesome,” said Harris, a kickboxing champion. “I’m so proud to be part ofthe college and to come back and see the changes. I love what’s going on here.”

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Art, Activism, Health Care, and Science Brought to Life by Visitors

Alum Shines Light Across the World

In the 22 years since shegraduated from MaryBaldwin, Joanne Reich’88 has traveled fromGeorgia to Israel,Arkansas to Hong Kong,and Texas to New York,working as an advocatefor those in need, usuallywomen and children.

Reich returned to her alma mater inFebruary to share what has helped her getthrough trying times: balancing work with funand speaking “truth to power.”

Although Reich’s talk for the college’sannual World Religions and PeacekeepingLecture was cancelled due to a snowstorm, shewas able to present in two classes on campusthe following day. Junior international relationsmajor Logan Dill was one of several studentswho had lunch with Reich during the visit.

“As a United Methodist myself, it was veryinteresting to hear how her faith has informed,and has been shaped by, her career choices,” Dillsaid. “I have reached the point in my collegecareer where I am seriously thinking about whatlies ahead after graduation and it is alwaysmeaningful to hear from someone who has beenthrough that process themselves and has beenable to follow their beliefs and passions.”

As child protection and community serviceofficer for the General Board of GlobalMinistries of the United Methodist Church,Reich spends most of her time making sure herorganization’s practices are being carried outethically and responsibly, and that it is creating“safe sanctuaries” for women and children.

“There are good people in leadership andthose who abuse their power. The church is notimmune to that,” Reich said. “We try to bringabout justice where there is injustice … we try tobring healing to those who have been harmed.”

Artist Inspires, Finds Connection with Students Be it his photosculptures, photo series, stop-motion videos, or TASK parties, OliverHerring’s desire to connect with strangers is a constant theme in his work.

“I work with strangers for the challenge,” said the German-born artist who deliv-ered the 2010 Susan Paul Firestone Lecture in Contemporary Art. “If I use friends, Iknow what to expect. With strangers, I have to build up trust and form a relationshipin order to make [the project] work. This creates an intense, often lasting, connection Iwould not get with a friend.”

On the eve of his lecture to the broader MBC community, Herring participated ina student-run version of one of his signature TASK parties, a performance art piece inwhich participants are recruited to perform random acts in various public forums.Dubbed “TASKiverse,” the event included a faculty wedding, a kidnapping, and amakeover — all staged with the use of paint, cardboard, pipe cleaners, glitter, tape,clothing, and paper.

“TASKiverse went supremely well,” said student organizer Gillian Jordan ’12.“Working with and meeting Oliver was absolutely amazing. He is so sweet and kind,and really does inspire and motivate the people around him to do things they wouldn’tnormally do and to think in new ways.”

In Francis Auditorium the artist delivered an unscripted lecture, and more connec-tions were made.

“Learning about the meditative process he goes through while creating art wasamazing,” said studio art major Sarah Shirer ’10. “It was interesting to see that all ofhis works have a meditative and therapeutic process.”

Dr. C. Sue Carter, a behavioral neu-roscientist credited as the first per-son to identify the physiologicalmechanisms responsible for socialmonogamy, delivered this year’sMary E. Humphreys BiologyLecture on May 6.

The talk, Oxytocin and Love:Healing Body, Brain, and Behavior,touched on Carter’s research withprairie voles, as she works to gain a

better understanding of the possiblerole of hormones in human disor-ders such as autism and anxiety.

Carter received a ResearchScientist Award from the NationalInstitute of Mental Health and cur-rently directs a National Institutesof Health project aimed at examin-ing the developmental consequencesof oxytocin, a hormone most oftenassociated with female reproduc-

tion. She has written about howhormones affect perspectives onstress in postpartum women, socialattachment, aggression, and love.

The University of Arkansasgraduate is president of theInternational BehavioralNeuroscience Society and professorof psychiatry and co-director of theBrain Body Center at University ofChicago.

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Faculty/staffAcornsAlice Araujo, associate professor of com-munication, was elected chair of the under-graduate college and university section ofthe National Communication Association.

Gordon Bowen, professor of political sci-ence, was appointed by McGraw-Hill publish-ers to the advisory board for textbooks onterrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Sara Nair James, professor of art history,received the 2010 Virginia Foundation forIndependent Colleges Mednick ResearchFellowship for her project, “Art in England:The Saxons to the Stuarts.”

Eric Jones, associate professor of biology,received the Silver Beaver Award from theBoy Scouts of America. One of the organization’s highest honors, the awardrecognizes outstanding service to youthand community service.

QuotableMBC“We provide a lot of services to ourinternational students. It’s the kind ofexperience that the student might notget at a huge university, where it’s veryeasy to become one of 100 Japanesestudents, or one of 500 Chinese stu-dents. At Mary Baldwin each studentgets a very personal experience and alot of attention.”— Heather Ward, director of international programs,“MBC International Program Sees Increase” onWHSV-TV3, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

“It shows how the community comestogether when one person has a prob-lem. It’s important. It will help them findhope so they can see they will actuallycome back from this.” — Haitian student Naianka Rigaud ’11, commentingabout the MBC community’s outpouring of supportin the wake of that country’s January 12 earthquake,in The News Leader, Staunton, Virginia.

“Remember games like mother may I,freeze tag, four-square, break thegates, and hopscotch? Teach these for-gotten gems to your video-game-play-ing children. They’ll get a kick out ofseeing what you did way back when,and you’ll have the perfect excuse toact like a kid again.”— One of several pieces of advice from SharonSpalding, athletics director and professor of physicaleducation, in Better Health and Living, “Fast, FunFamily Fitness.”

“I didn’t come here to compete with thefreshmen. I came here to do my best.”— Emily Lint, a freshman in the Program for theExceptionally Gifted, in a detailed profile in TheVirginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia.

“It takes a lot of time and energy to setup the basic idea, get it approved, col-lect participants, analyze data, and writethe report. You have to be very patient.”— Daniella Guzman ’11, responding to questionsabout conducting original research from students atGirls Preparatory School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.She was one of four students who accompaniedAssociate Professor of Psychology Louise Freemanand were quoted in The Chattanoogan.

Sarah Kennedy, associate professor ofEnglish, was nominated for a PushcartPrize and her book Home Remedies hasbeen nominated Book of the Year by theLibrary of Virginia. She also won hePrairie Schooner’s Luschei Award forPoetry.

Daniel Métraux, professor of AsianStudies, authored books, The AsianWritings of Jack London and How SokaGakkai Became a Global BuddhistMovement: The Internationalization of aJapanese Religion, both published byEdwin Mellen Press.

Lallon Pond, associate professor of busi-ness, was elected to serve on the boardof the Central Virginia Chapter of theFulbright Association.

Lecturer Explores Future of Health Care Just days after the passage of ahistory-making health carereform bill in Congress, one ofthe foremost experts on the sub-ject delivered the 2010 CarpenterLecture in Health CareAdministration on March 24.

Shannon Brownlee, jour-nalist and author of the bookOvertreated: Why Too MuchMedicine is Making us Sickerand Poorer, addressed a prob-lem not directly tackled in therecent overhaul — the issue ofovertreatment.

She talked about theroughly two dozen “hotspots” — places like Southern California, Miami, Chicago, NewJersey, and Texas, where Medicare is spending massive amounts of money on unnecessarytreatment. What is interesting, Brownlee pointed out, is that those patients receiving morecare did not have better medical outcomes than those patients with similar conditions inother areas of the country. A simple solution, she said, is education.

“When patients are really well informed [about their treatment options], 70 percent areless likely to choose invasive procedures,” Brownlee said to a crowd of about 100 students,faculty, staff, and local residents.

Peppering her speech with fascinating statistics and powerful anecdotes, Brownlee point-ed toward areas where progress can be made: promoting organized care, increasing patientchoice, changing the way health care is delivered, and reigning in those spending hotspots —by revising hospitals’ rankings and by dinging their bond ratings.

“Now that the legislation has passed, the really hard work is ahead,” Brownlee said. Health Care Administration major Becca Rudolph ’12 said she appreciated Brownlee’s

neutral, matter-of-fact approach to the problem, a refreshing change from the contentiouspolitical debate of the last year.

“It was the best lecture I’ve ever heard,” Rudolph said.

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MBCGreen

>> What Goes Around Comes Around

The Green Team launched in 2009–10 a program tocompost dining hall scraps. With the help of diningservices staff and a local farmer, hundreds of poundsof vegetable scraps were diverted from the landfill.Instead, those sweet potato peels, asparagus stems, andapple cores were taken to a nearby farm and made intocompost — that dark, loamy substance that can do somuch to enrich soil naturally.

The process not only reduces the buildup of harmfulmethane gas that forms at landfills, it also saves the col-lege money by reducing landfill-hauling fees.

Green Team member Aimee Sanford ’11 said she’dlike the program to be extended so that post-consumerfood waste — or food left over from plates — is alsocomposted. Grande said using the compost made fromdining hall scraps on campus is another Green Team goalfor 2010–11.

>> Community Garden Could Help Feed College

Those who have taken part in the planting, tending,and harvesting of Mary Baldwin’s community gardennear Prospect Street are ready to take the service proj-ect to a new level in 2010–11.

“We hope to plant more vegetables that wouldshow up in the dining hall,” Grande said. “It’s a goodway for students to see the whole cycle of food.”

He’ll work with folks such as Professor ofSociology Carey Usher, a master gardener, and MBCExecutive Chef Tracy Hiner to determine when andhow many of which particular crops to plant. Althoughfaculty, staff, and students have contributed to the gar-den’s success over the past two years, Grande saidhe’d like to see more students involved in the harvest-ing process this fall.

Students dining in Hunt this year also enjoyedsome locally grown vegetables, and beef and porkfrom area farms.

And in yet another effort to expand the college’spush to produce more local food, Grande is building apartnership with a community garden on StaffordStreet in Staunton. A group met in March to establishwork groups and set planting dates for the 2010 har-vest. The site — near the Booker T. WashingtonCommunity Center — is where Susannah Baskervill’04 spent much of her senior year recruiting local chil-dren to cultivate a community garden after receiving a$1,000 Margarett Kable Russell Scholarship.

>> Green Team Focuses on RecyclingAs a group of students dedicated to making Mary Baldwin College more eco-friendly, the GreenTeam put a heavy emphasis this year on one particular tenet of environmental stewardship: recy-cling. In 2009–10, students ramped up the on-campus effort by including cardboard and mixedpaper in its recycling repertoire. Green Team advisor Steve Grande, director of civic engagement,called the addition “a tremendous contribution” to the college’s eco-focus. There is room forimprovement, though. According to Grande, recycling numbers fell off in early 2010, making theGreen Team’s efforts to reduce landfill waste even more valuable. Also helping to improve the col-lege recycling plan this year were senior business students who worked in groups to streamlinewaste management on campus, with an eye toward saving money and the planet.


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Mary Baldwin women create a culture of confidence during a national crisis By Dawn Medley

FEW OF US HAVE BEEN IMMUNE to tough financialdecisions this year. Where to come up with money for col-lege. Whether to buy that much-needed bigger home. Howto save for retirement. Even how to get by with fewer gro-ceries or a single family vehicle. Although there are manysigns that the national economy is rebounding, we under-stand that more difficult choices likely lie ahead.

In our recent quest to discover how Mary BaldwinCollege graduates — and the college itself — are weather-ing the Great Recession, we found alumnae who facedfears about unemployment head-on, those who boldlystruck out on their own despite warnings to the contrary,and others who did not let dour economic predictions slowtheir already established businesses.

As you meet them on the following pages, may you,too, realize that a Mary Baldwin College degree projectsskills not only in history or chemistry or Spanish, but alsoin adaptability and resilience.

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The Big-TimeEntrepreneur“I was fortunate that I never really neededto question if we could weather the reces-sion,” said Tracy Lolita Burks Healy ’87,creator, president, and CEO of Designs byLolita.

Healy’s confidence in her multi-mil-lion-dollar line of hand-painted martinistemware, beverage accessories, and othernovelty items came after years of planningand round-the-clock work — often withone of her young daughters “hanging oneach leg,” she said. Not to mention a bit ofa shot in the arm from a Mary BaldwinCollege professor.

“A discussion about middle namesstarted in one of my English classes, andwhen it came to my turn, I glanced aroundnervously and mumbled ‘Lolita,’” sheremembered. “Even though there were nega-tive associations with the name, he said rightthen and there that I should never beashamed of it.”

Healy graduated from MBC magnacum laude with a double major in marketingcommunication and art, and big dreams ofbecoming a well-recognized artist. “I wouldhave been content with an art major, but myparents convinced me that I needed the busi-ness and sales knowledge to back it up.They didn’t want me out on the streets try-ing to sell my paintings,” she said.

The Lolita empire sprouted from anordinary night out with girlfriends. “It wasthe first time I saw a martini menu, and Ithought ‘this glass needs a design on it —and it needs the recipe for the drink on thebottom.’ I started selling to friends, and Iknew I had something special because Icouldn’t make them fast enough,” she toldBusiness Week in late 2009.

Her business training — and experienceworking in cosmetics, fashion, and fashionmarketing, including time at Donna KaranNew York — proved wise when Healy tran-sitioned her home-based hobby of decorat-ing glasses with signature drink recipes to awider market. She launched and licensedDesigns by Lolita in 2004, and the compa-ny has continued steady growth, topping$60 million in sales in 2009. Instead of scal-ing back in the wake of the national eco-nomic slowdown, Healy worked throughthe winter and spring to develop a line ofpajamas and robes, beach towels, acrylicdrinkware, and candles that will bear hernow-whimsical moniker. She continued tobe featured in national press; had conversa-tions about a television pilot; and movedcloser to publishing her first book, MartiniMoments, in fall 2010.

Although her easy smile and energeticvoice make success seem effortless, Healyknows that her story and those of manyother women have plenty of obstacles.

“It’s tough being a female entrepre-neur,” she said. “We often feel like wehave to do everything; it is in our natureto be nurturers.”

Healy’s involvement in Women’sLeadership Exchange is an ideal outlet forher desire to see other women achieve careersuccess in balance with family roles. Theorganization recognizes the unique chal-lenges that confront women in leadershipand offers a way to build connections thathelp them succeed in life while succeeding inbusiness. Healy’s television and radioappearances — which include Better Homesand Gardens TV — often stress her beliefthat it is realistic for women to have a careerand solid family relationships.

“I hope every woman can take a pas-sion or an idea and research it,” Healy saidin an interview for Providence BusinessJournal. She divides her time between a stu-dio in Providence and headquarters inSavannah, perpetually sketching new ideasand approving designs for product use. “Myphilosophy is to create things that I wouldlike to buy, and to have a brand that isinstantly recognizable.”

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The Financial Wiz KidAlhough she was just a girl when she cameto Mary Baldwin, Kathy Lien ’98 credits hertime in Mary Baldwin’s Program for theExceptionally Gifted for her success today,success that can be measured in appearanceson CNBC, in The Wall Street Journal, atseminars in Singapore, and on the shelves ofnational bookstore chains.

“[PEG] played a big role in my life, itgave me an edge. Employers were intrigued,and were looking for someone who didn’t fitthe mold,” said Lien, author, analyst, trader,and currency director for GFT Forex.

As a youngster, the New York nativespent summers at a youth enrichment pro-gram at Johns Hopkins University and hadbeen accepted into the elite Stuyvesant High

School when she received a brochure in themail about the PEG program at MBC. Atage 13, she took a chance and moved toStaunton for a year to study at MaryBaldwin.

“It was a bonding experience,” Liensaid, remembering times spent with fellowPEG students in the dorm for a regular cof-fee klatch, which sometimes involved record-ing an impromptu singing and recording ses-sion. “It was a good environment — sup-portive women, everyone on an equal educa-tional level.”

Wanting to be closer to home, Lien wasable to transfer to New York University(NYU), and — having the luxury of an earlystart to college — decided to switch gearsand drop a pre-med major to study econom-ics. This would not be the first time that

Lien’s decision to start college early wouldgive her a leg up.

By 18, she had earned a degree fromNYU’s Leonard Stern School of Business anddecided to enter the financial world. Thoughcompetition was fierce at the height of thetech boom, Lien broke the mold, and landeda position at JPMorgan Chase alongsideolder graduates from top-tier institutionssuch as Harvard, Stanford, and Yale.Looking for a change, Lien was able to onceagain take advantage of her youth, turningdown a promotion at JPMorgan in 2003 tojoin a currency firm. As the firm grew, Lienflourished, and another currency tradingfirm, GFT, recruited her in 2008.

All along, the fact that Lien graduatedfrom college at such a young age made animpression on her future bosses. “They’vetold me the reason why they hired me wasbecause I was really unique,” she said.

Today, she writes commentary aboutwhere foreign currency markets are headedand travels, teaching others how to tradecurrency. Lien is working on her fifth book,makes television appearances, and is quotedoften in the financial press. Tough economictimes provided a niche that Lien could fill.

“Not only was there a global financialcrisis, there was volatility in the equity mar-kets. That required a lot of precise analysisand I was able to provide it. So, it did raisemy profile,” she said.

Lien says she’s happy right where she is,but at only 29, and having achieved so muchsuccess at such an early age, Lien sees aworld of opportunity at her fingertips.“Opportunities come to my desk every day.”

The Creative UpstartJust before her 10th Mary Baldwin CollegeReunion, Rebecca Teaff ’99 made what somemight consider a reckless decision. Sheprefers to think of it as bold: leaving her jobwith an ad agency to start her own designbusiness. She was not fired or downsized; shesimply decided to try going out on her own.In the midst of an economic recession.

“While working at a larger design com-pany, I saw that small businesses couldn’tafford their services, and I realized that therewas a market there,” said Teaff. “I saw anopportunity where the slower economywould be to my advantage.”

Teaff saved as much money as she couldand prepared for her entrepreneurial adven-ture for several months before foundingRedstart Creative in September 2009. Herfirst order of business: designing her ownlogo. Teaff’s red hair was the inspiration forthe company name, so she ran with that, cre-

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‘THIS LAND IS OUR LAND’: Driving from her home inManhattan to Staunton for her five-year reunion, NancyAmbler ’75 was disheartened to see “For Sale” signson farmland up and down the Shenandoah Valley. Thirtyyears later, during the height of the most recent nationalrecession, she launched her own land conservationcompany. Wood Thrush Land Conservation, LLC fostersopen-space preservation through the transfer of taxcredits for the donation of conservation easements.“Since childhood, my spirit has been renewed by thewonders of the natural world,” Ambler said. “I am sograteful now to be able to follow my heart and utilize mydecades of professional expertise to assist landownersacross Virginia to fulfill their own dreams of saving theirland forever, for the benefit of us all.”

RESUMÉ BUILDING TRANSLATES TO RESUMÉWRITING: When Torski Dobson-Arnold ’99 was let gofrom a job she loved in 2007, she was not expecting thechange or to be happy about it, but she did have a back-up plan. A marketing management and business gradu-ate of MBC, Dobson-Arnold turned what had been ahobby — critiquing and writing resumés and cover let-ters for friends — into Your Career Confidence, LLC, aspecialized service for professionals. “I graduated fromMary Baldwin empowered and ready to take on theworld. I can’t say that there haven’t been momentssince then when I faltered a little, but I’m back in a placeof confidence and looking toward the future.”

NEW PROMOTIONAL BUSINESS FINDS SWEET“SPOT”: Anna Henley ’02 and her family launchedthemselves into the small business world with SPOTPrints in October 2008 to help other businesses special-ize in promotional products, mixed-media advertising,and incentive programs. Despite constant remindersthat they chose one of the toughest times in Americaneconomic history to start their business, the new entre-preneurs were undeterred. “The economic turmoil hasnot stopped our drive and determination to build newrelationships with businesses and organizations in ourarea, and business has been better than we anticipated,”Henley said.

THEATRE THRIVES UNDER ALUM’S LEADERSHIP:Mary Baldwin’s Master of Fine Arts in Shakespeareand Renaissance Literature program encouragedKatherine Mayberry ’07 to think of theatre andShakespeare in practical terms, including realizing thattheatre is a business as well as an art form. Mayberrycontinues to keep Michigan-based Pigeon CreekShakespeare Company successful by learning fromtheatre companies in The Bard’s time, which “adjustedto societal conditions to keep themselves going,” shesaid. With that philosophy in mind, the company actu-ally recorded an increase in donations from individualpatrons in 2009.

ating a graphic image that resembles hairblowing in the wind and the bird that is hercompany’s namesake. “It also works as anabstract symbol conveying positive, forwardmotion,” she said.

In January 2010, just five monthsinto her venture, Teaff was already work-ing with about 10 small-scale clients onprojects ranging from fundraising cam-paigns to company logos to Web sites.Her goals for the coming months includefinding a workday rhythm outside theoffice setting, working with repeatclients, and engaging in pro bono workfor a few non-profit organizations. Shecontinues to benefit from business own-ers’ need to reach customers efficientlyand effectively with downsized advertis-ing budgets.

“People have to think more creativelyand need to market even more in a reces-sion,” Teaff said, backing up her state-ment with anecdotal evidence and theresults of a McGraw-Hill study of morethan 600 businesses during the 1980–85recession. The study reports that compa-nies that maintained or increased theamount spent on advertising averagedhigher sales growth during the recessionand in the following three years.

Teaff, who also lends her design skillsto her class leadership team, admitted thatthe toughest part about being in businessfor herself is that “there is no delegating. Ihave to do it all, from the creative thingsto the finances.” She depends on socialnetworking sites such as Twitter andFacebook to promote Redstart Creativeand to connect with creative partners forprojects on which she also needs copywriting or Web programming.

“I’m taking it one step at a time, andI’m so grateful that other small businessowners have been encouraging and help-ful to me,” Teaff said.

The UndauntedCommunicator“Instead of being devastated, I was deter-mined,” said Dacrie Brooks ’98 after beinglaid off from a public relations firm inMay 2009. After all, three young childrenwere depending on her.

Brooks established herself on a publicrelations track early in her college careerwith an internship in the MBC CollegeRelations Office and another with an inde-pendent marketing firm. After graduation,she looked for jobs in the industry in hernative Virginia Beach. Finding no open-ings, she ventured to New York City for aposition as assistant account executive — astep up from entry level — with technolo-gy PR firm Middleburg and Associates. Asa fresh-faced graduate, Brooks was coordi-nating speaking engagements, garneringmedia coverage, and helping create mes-saging strategies for some of the company’smore than 2,000 clients.

A few years later, she took a higher-level position with another NY-basedfirm, and continued to be successful, pro-viding services to high-profile companiessuch as AIG, PricewaterhouseCoopers,and Maxell Corporation of America.Then the country’s economic spiral caughtup with the public relations industry.Brooks reluctantly said good-bye to hercomfortable office and charted her next

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career move independent of corporateAmerica. “Mary Baldwin instilled suchgreat confidence in me that I knew I wouldbe able to adapt,” said Brooks, but sheadmitted that the opportunity to start herown PR consulting business did not comewithout nerves. She called on her liberalarts training and communication courses— specifically one in mass media research— to establish San Antonio-based BrooksMedia Relations in late 2009.

Her client roster may be a fraction ofthose big-time firms, but Brooks continuesto secure big-time media placements forthem in publications such as Forbes, TheWall Street Journal, and Business Week, toname a few. In fact, she says, the depressedeconomy drives her smaller-scale business,sending to her clients who do not havelarge marketing or advertising budgets.Brooks is pleased to have a handful ofsteady clients — as many as she can han-dle as a one-woman firm — who seek herservices ranging from speaker placementsto general media outreach.

“Of course, I still have butterflies. If Ididn’t continue to have them and to re-evaluate my course, I would know some-thing was wrong,” she said.

For this adaptable alumna, there’s alot going right.

The CommunityBuilder When she rose to accept the honor of out-standing student in the Adult DegreeProgram during her Commencement cere-mony in May 2009, Crystal France knewthat the job market did not look good inher hometown of Martinsville, Virginia. Butshe was determined to find a position thatcombined her previous work experienceand her new degree in communication.

“I applied for hundreds of jobs, regis-tered on every career search site I couldthink of, and used all of my contacts,” saidFrance, a former marketing and public rela-tions executive. During her MBC tenure,she continued her involvement in serviceorganizations, such as Martinsville’sDemocratic committee and HelpingEmpower Youth, a group dedicated tosteering children and teens toward healthychoices.

France distinguished herself as an out-standing student by going the extra mile —literally — driving from Martinsville toStaunton to meet with communication fac-ulty on campus and to broaden her educa-tion with participation in Summer Week. Infall 2009, she packed up and relocated to

Martin County, on Florida’s easternTreasure Coast, to start work as marketingand public relations manager on the countybusiness development board. France rel-ished the opportunity to work at gettingothers back to work.

“Florida weathered the economic slidelonger than other states, but now it is facinga longer recovery because the economydepends so heavily on residential relocationand construction,” she said. France’sdepartment works with existing businessesand recruits new ones to the county toencourage the economy to rebound. InMartin County and other areas of Florida,localities are being encouraged to diversifythe employment base; France and her teamare actively seeking more manufacturingjobs, exporting positions, and biomedicalproduct development for their area.

“It feels good, like I’m giving some-thing to this community,” France said.“Even if I can help five people go back tothe workplace, those are five families thataren’t struggling any more.”

The Flexible Executive In January 2009, Kamala Payne’s momcalled to let her know what she was watch-ing on a morning news program: that phar-maceutical powerhouse Pfizer was poised tobuy out Wyeth, where Payne had workedsince a few weeks after graduation in 2005.

“We knew that the merger was a possi-bility, but had no idea what would happenwhen it became a reality,” said Payne, whohad been promoted to the Scientist II levelthe previous year and been given additionalresponsibilities as a member of the compa-ny’s internal efficiency team, Lean SixSigma.

The following days and weeks atWyeth included a flurry of e-mails, town-hall type meetings, and rumors. Ultimately,the company accepted Pfizer’s buyout offer,and then came the real reactions fromemployees, which ranged from fear to over-achievement to acceptance, Payne said. Herfuture was still uncertain: Would she needto relocate to accommodate Pfizer’s restruc-turing? Would her division, consumerhealth care, be eliminated completely?Payne stayed calm, calling on what sherefers to as Mary Baldwin College’s prepa-ration for her to be an “agent of change”through leadership roles in student govern-ment and participation in the classroom. Asa member of the college’s Advisory Boardof Visitors, Payne continues that associationas a leader at MBC and, she hopes, encour-ages future alumnae/i to “give back becausethey see us giving back.”

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Designs by Lolita http://designsbylolita.comBrooks Media Relations www.brooksmediarelations.com Redstart Creative www.redstartcreative.comMartin Country (FL) Business www.bdbmc.org

Development BoardPfizer www.pfizer.comForex Blog www.kathylien.com

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Payne’s three-week stay with a host fam-ily in South Africa during May Term 2003provided another significant lesson in adapt-ability, helping her “understand the struggleof everyday people in another country.” Thepharmaceutical industry is “very diverse,” shesays, and in South Africa she “gained a per-spective that aids me in forming workingrelationships with people of diverse interna-tional backgrounds.” Payne hopes to soonapply for Pfizer’s Global Excellence Fellowsprogram, where she could travel worldwidefor several months to promote AIDS aware-ness and prevention.

Payne knew she had to be flexible dur-ing the Wyeth/Pfizer transition. Although shehas so far been fortunate to be spared dra-matic changes since the merger, the formerbiology major expects her position and thecompany’s structure to be revamped in thecoming months. She is currently responsiblefor designing drug stability studies and deter-mining expiration dates.

“I’m not sure if we are even staying in theVirginia area. I’ve been pretty adaptable, andwill continue to be. If they tell me ‘Kamala,your job is moving to ‘blank’,’ I’ll go. If they say‘Kamala, we would like you to take on theseresponsibilities,’ I’m in. If they say ‘Kamala I’msorry but,’ I’ll deal with it,” she said.

“Change is a new beginning. You haveto be ready to move with it, or it will moveyou … out of the way.”

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The CollegeMary Baldwin reached a fundraisingmilestone this spring — the halfwaymark of the Campaign for MaryBaldwin — as reported in TheCupola. Since the inception of theSmith Challenge in 2005, contribu-tions to the college have totaledmore than $27 million — creating asolid foundation for the long-rangecampaign. Gifts to the college, espe-cially during this period of economicuncertainty, continued to raise thecollege’s national profile andenhance its reputation for distinctiveacademic excellence.

But MBC was not spared diffi-cult financial decisions.

During her opening address tofaculty and staff at the beginning ofthe 2009–10 academic year,President Pamela Fox faced futurechallenges with optimism: “Thoughthe global economic crisis has ‘reset’some of our expectations, we areperfectly poised to realize a boldnew synthesis from our success.”

In an effort to reconcile a pro-jected $1.7 million budget shortfallin 2010–11 — and in the spirit oftransparency about the budgetingprocess — the college’s Board ofTrustees announced several money-saving measures to take effect in July2010. A need to reduce the amountdrawn from the endowment, uncer-tainty about funding from Virginia’sTuition Assistance Grant, anddecreasing tuition income had allcontributed to the shortfall, andlong-range solutions were required.

Early retirement offerings, atemporary retirement contributionreduction, increased health-care pre-miums, and modest further faculty

and staff cuts were outlined at acollegewide meeting in March.

“I remind you again that wecannot cut our way forward, wehave to create it,” said MBCPresident Pamela Fox.

Moving ahead, Mary Baldwinis claiming a distinctive place in thehigher education landscape by high-lighting its strengths through theSchools of Excellence. In crafting anupdate for the college’s strategicplan, the college will focus on the“sweet spot” where mission meetsthe needs of 21st century students.

Supporters such as BertieMurphy Deming Smith ’46 havehelped change the face of MaryBaldwin — literally, by providingfunds for necessary, visible buildingupgrades — and the college contin-ues to depend on them. Perhapseven more critical, however, are thethousands of smaller donations thatsupport the Annual Fund.

“Gifts to the Annual Fund pro-pel us toward realizing not only thecampaign’s success, but also the col-lege’s ongoing mission,” said AngusMcQueen, former interim vice presi-dent for institutional advancement.

The Campaign SteeringCommittee, Board of Trustees, andfundraising staff are now focused onthe next financial goal: addressingthe college’s most pressing remainingneeds. According to Fox, theseinclude scholarships to supportyoung women entering through eachof our Leadership Gateways; endow-ment and program support for thenew Schools of Excellence and theSpencer Center for Civic and GlobalEngagement; and transformingPearce Science Center, Hunt DiningHall, and arts and athletic facilities.

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Libbie Alby Bull, Class of 1893, establishedMary Baldwin School for Girls in Kunsan,Korea, in 1912, at a time when its Americannamesake was not yeteven a college. Fouryears later, another MBCalumna, Lily Woods ’16,founded her school forgirls in Hwainfu, China.

When MaryBaldwin CollegePresident Pamela Foxjoined a small group offaculty and staff on arecruiting trip to Japanand South Korea inMarch, she added her thread to the college’scentury-old and ever-blossoming relationshipwith East Asia.

MBC’s eastern connection began longbefore the college could have known thevalue of ties to that part of the world. Theseearly educational ventures began rich associ-ations that to this day enhance life at MBC

and partnering Asian universities.“In terms of American world trade, in

terms of American political interests, Asia hasbecome the pre-emi-nent part of the world,”said Professor of AsianStudies DanielMétraux. “Our biggest,most importantembassy is in China.Most of our trade iswith Asia, much morethan Europe. Americais becoming a Pacificnation, an Asian-orient-ed nation, so our Asian

connections are very much training peoplefor the future.”

Over the years, the college’s connectionsin the region have grown to include dynamicexchange programs with Doshisha Women’sCollege in Kyoto; Tokyo Jogakkan, a small-er women’s college in the capital city;and Sungshin University in Seoul.

MBC’s Newest Global Education PartnerWith nearly 10,000 female students situatedin a major city, Sungshin University offersquite a contrast to Mary Baldwin College.

The university’s president, vice presi-dent, dean of external affairs and develop-ment, and assistants visited Mary Baldwin in2008 to solidify the exchange, which grewfrom a friendship between Métraux and aprofessor and former dean at Sungshin.

And in March, Métraux led Dr. Fox, herhusband Dan Layman, and Heather Ward,director of international programs at MBC’s

Spencer Center for Civic and GlobalEngagement, to the gleaming, urban campus.

“When we arrived on the Sungshincampus, they introduced us to students whohad applied to come to Mary Baldwin. Theywere bright, their English was excellent, andthey were outgoing and ready for the adven-ture,” Ward recalled. An energetic group ofnine Sungshin students arrived at MaryBaldwin in fall 2009, while two MaryBaldwin students have applied to study inSeoul in 2010–11.

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President Pamela Fox (center) traveled with a small contingent of MBC ambassadors to Japan and SouthKorea in March to help strengthen ties, recruit students,and assess best opportunities for the future.

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Yeon Joo Ham, a junior, is one of theSungshin students who arrived at MBCin fall 2009. “In Korea it is a little bithard to learn spoken English. We haveacademic tutoring, but not conversationclasses,” Ham said. “The strongest partat Mary Baldwin is that we live withAmerican women. I can learn their cul-ture and their language also.”

Ham admitted she had been wor-ried about living with other people. “Atfirst I didn’t know when I could turn offthe light. I want to open the window,but I don’t know whether she’s all rightor not,” Ham said. “But my roommateis really good.”

Ham’s experience is typical. “A dif-ficult adjustment factor for bothJapanese and Korean students is com-munication,” said Ward, and this goesfar beyond spoken language. “Their cul-tures have a lot of ‘high context’ com-munication, a lot of body languageAmericans don’t pick up on.” When aJapanese or Korean student respondsto an invitation by saying: “I’ll have tothink about it,” or “I might need tostudy,” they’re trying to gently say “no,”Ward explained.

“It’s also very embarrassing tothem to ask a roommate to turn off thelight or keep their voice down, sothey’ll try a number of subtle ways ofcommunicating — and it doesn’talways work!”

The U.S. classroom experiencealso presents a contrast. “In Korea andJapan, nobody talks in class. It’s a lec-ture, they take notes,” Métraux said.

“Here you have a lot of give and take, alot of conversation. It can be a littlescary to them.”

Haeun Sung, a junior exchangestudent from Sungshin University,found it difficult at first because of bothlanguage and culture. “I’m a little afraid,but I’m excited,” she said. During hersecond semester at MBC, she gainedconfidence: “I think active participationin learning makes sense. When I returnto Korea, I will miss that atmosphere,”Sung said.

Interacting with professors cre-ates challenges in both cultures. “Atmy former university in Japan, we had30,000 students. I tried to make anappointment with my professor, andhe said: ‘You have to wait at least sixmonths,’” said Masayo Maeda, a sen-ior from Tokyo who worked for severalyears after college and is earning asecond bachelor’s degree at MBC.“Here I can go to a professor’s officewithout an appointment.”

But American informality can beequally unnerving: “One professor atMBC gave me a chocolate when I wentto his office,” said Maeda. She smiled ather memory of worrying about whetherto eat the candy right away.

Maeda chose to study in Americapartly because it is unusual forJapanese graduates to return to school.“Even though technically I can apply forJapanese college,” she said, “it mightbe very weird, so I decided to go toanother country.”

She was linked to Mary Baldwin

through the Sakae Institute of StudyAbroad, a Tokyo placement agencyfounded by Ms. Yoko Sakae that placesJapanese students at American universi-ties. The relationship between theInstitute and Mary Baldwin College datesback at least 20 years, and Sakae hasserved on the MBC Board of Trustees.“Every year we have one or two newstudents from her,” Ward said. “The insti-tute has been very good to us.”

Not only good to us, but good forus. “We Americans — faculty, staff, andstudents — need to take more advan-tage of the presence of Asian studentshere,” added Ward. “They’ve come fromso far. They’re so brave. And they haveso much to offer. We have the opportu-nity to get to know them, introducethem to our families, and understand adifferent point of view.”

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Global Connections (top, from left to right): South Korean exchange student Sin Young Kim greets the formerU.S. Ambassador to her country at the Spencer Center; an MBC student receives a warm welcome fromJapanese children during a May Term trip; Japanese student Tomoe Dohtsu waves the Virginia flag with her MBCAmbassador, Sara Norton; city lights in Tokyo; Japanese students Tomoe Dohtsu and Keiko Nomura laugh withMelissa Farrar; Asian Studies major Rachel Reich visits a girls’ school in Japan.


As excited as Korean, Japanese, andChinese students are about being atMBC, Mary Baldwin students are equallyenthusiastic about Asian study and travel.

In May, Métraux returned to Japan— primarily Tokyo and Kyoto — with 15new students.

“We spent a whole day at a combi-nation grade school, middle school, highschool. Then I have a friend who’s aMember of Parliament, and he loved talk-ing to our MBC students,” Métraux said.“We saw the Emperor’s secret room inParliament — a very fancy room wherehe prepares for his annual address to thelegislature, like our State of the Union.Next we went to Kamakura, an old citywith temples, and Mount Fuji, and Nikkoup in the mountains with shrines andtemples to the Tokugawa shoguns. Ofcourse we spent a lot of time in Tokyo.The transportation is incredible — sub-ways come every two minutes.”

Other MBC students enjoy longerstays. “Most of our students who studyat Asian schools stay for a semester,although two or three recently havestayed for a full year at Tokyo Jogakkan,”said Métraux, who also established thatexchange. The Doshisha program is forthe fall semester, but at Jogakkan orSungshin MBC students can stay fall,

spring, or both semesters. “We sentseven students to Japan last fall — six toDoshisha, and one to Tokyo Jogakkan,”he added.

Katy Lea Todd ‘11 likely would nothave researched the intriguing story ofJapanese youthcalled hikikomori ifshe had not spent asemester at TokyoJogakkan. At the2010 CapstoneFestival in May, Toddrevealed in herpaper presentationthat about one mil-lion young people in Japan — driven byan unwillingness to operate within a soci-ety they believe denies them their indi-viduality — sequester themselves fromthe outside world.

Before her semester abroad, theAsian Studies and philosophy major hadnot heard of the hikikomori phenomenon.

“This paper came out of fourmonths of research I had in Japan,” Toddsaid. “I did a lot of personal interviews,and living in this society … I just got thisidea. I thought, ‘wow, that cannot bereal. This cannot be going on.’”

Todd’s presentation garnered tophonors at the festival.

“MBC was my first and only choicefor college because of the excellentexchange programs available to send stu-dents to Asian countries,” said KrystleDemboski, a rising junior majoring inAsian Studies and English. Last fall,Demboski studied at Doshisha, andquickly became impressed with Japan’shistory, landscape, modernity, and publictransportation system.

“It was easy to experience the clas-sical culture of Japan — temples, family-owned restaurants, and imperial palacesright alongside the fast food restaurants,department stores, and pachinko par-lors,” she said. “You couldn’t ask for amore awesome country to visit.”

Demboski also learned a lot aboutJapanese culture and a little bit aboutherself while abroad.

“It became pretty clear that eventhough the Japanese have been in con-tact with Americans for over a century… Japanese people will still ask tonsof questions about life here,”Demboski said. “I discovered prettyquickly that I am not a typicalAmerican. I don’t eat hamburgers ordrink coffee. Being in Japan reallyhelped me overcome stereotypesabout what I thought of Japanese peo-ple and what they think of us.”

Culture of mutual interest

‘Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones’Lallon Pond, associate professor of business administration, has traveled twice to China — most recently last summer ona Fulbright-Hayes fellowship for study abroad. What impressed her most was China’s rich history and how past contactswith the West influenced the Chinese psyche. Pond came to feel that Mao Zedong was revered not so much because ofCommunism, but for his role in reuniting the Chinese people, making them self-sufficient again, and shedding Westerninfluences as much as possible. “Now they’re trying to balance understanding the West and using what will be positivefor them, but not being overly influenced,” Pond said. “There were so many wonderful phrases for this concept. One ofmy favorites was, ‘Crossing the river by feeling the stones.’”

Katy Lea Todd ‘11

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In 2007, when Ward picked up a newstudent from Asia at the Charlottesvilleairport, the young woman innocentlyasked: “Do you keep a gun in yourcar?” Later, the student confessedthat she had been worried thatAmerica would be “like you see in theaction movies.”

“Safety and security are some ofthe first things we’re questionedabout,” Ward said. “I’m happy to beable to say that we have a very safecampus environment.

“We also say that if you come toMary Baldwin, you will experience thereal America. This is not Boston or NewYork City or L.A., where you’d have acommunity of Malaysians, or Japanese,or Koreans where you could go forhome-cooked meals or conversation inyour native language.

“The first week of classes, every-thing is great; second week assign-ments are due; third week, there’spanic,” said Ward. “But they’ll stay upuntil 3 a.m. or whatever it takes. Theywill end up earning As because theywork so hard. It’s impressive thatthey’re so dedicated.”

MBC provides strong support fornew international students with a spe-cial two-day orientation program, a sec-tion of MBC 101: Introduction toCollege focused on international stu-dents’ needs, and MBC Ambassadors.Ambassadors are returning MBC stu-dents with interest or experience incross-cultural learning who become cul-

tural, campus, and community liaisonsfor new international students. MaryBaldwin faculty and staff and local resi-dents can also volunteer to beInternational Friends, inviting interna-tional students to participate in activi-ties such as holiday celebrations andshopping trips, and providing serviceslike vacation transportation or housing.In addition, the Spencer Center plansregular campus gatherings, field trips,and cultural events.

In fall 2009 Ward teamed withMétraux to offer Introduction to

American Culturefor InternationalStudents, a newcourse to furtherfacilitate stu-dents’ adjust-ment. MBC professors from varied dis-ciplines gave presentations on topics inAmerican culture, religion, and history.“Sometimes students even learnthings about their own culture they did-n’t know — just as we would if wetook American studies courses inanother country,” Ward said.

Courses, Resources Provide Nurturing International Community

Learning Goes Both Ways: Students from Sungshin Universityinstruct participants of MBC’s Las Posadas multicultural festival inthe art of bowing to elders, a South Korean New Year’s Day tradition.

Global Connections (top, from left to right): MBC Ambassador Tiffany Miller enjoys icebreaker activities with newinternational students; South Korean student Sin Young Kim horses around on a farm near the home ofAssociate Professor of Communication Bruce Dorries; Hiriko Iwasaki takes in the view from Humpback Rock;international students enjoy ice skating in Charlottesville with Director of International Programs Heather Wardand her children; Professor of Asian Studies Daniel Métraux and Japanese students pose in front of ThomasJefferson’s Monticello; Professor of English Robert Grotjohn gathers with students in South Korea.


‘The Lanterns Hadn’t Become Darker, the Country Had Become Brighter’Sabbatical in South Korea reveals fundamental changesRecently retired Professor of English RobertGrotjohn spent his spring and fall 2009 sab-batical in South Korea, where he taughtclasses at Chonbuk National University inJeonju. In e-mails to friends and colleaguesat Mary Baldwin, he shared his experi-ences. Sprinkled throughout the messages,he related how Korean students impressedhim with their hard work and intelligence,although not all are successful. “I guessthat’s the same everywhere,” Grotjohnreflected. “Their reading ability is generallymore advanced than their speaking or lis-tening ability …” so he learned to slowdown and repeat himself frequently, andhad the satisfaction of seeing studentsimprove as classes progressed.

Grotjohn become acquainted withSouth Korea during his first teaching job atChonnam National University in Gwangjufrom 1981 to 1984. During that time, hemet and married his wife of 27 years, andtheir son was born there. He has watchedfrom a distance as South Korea evolvedfrom a dictatorship to an active democracy,from economically developing to a devel-oped country. Yet South Korean politics arestill tense. One e-mail from Grotjohn in May2009 reflects on the suicide of formerSouth Korean president Roh Moo-hyn andNorth Korea’s testing a nuclear bomb andshooting off missiles.

Outside the classroom, Grotjohn andhis wife, Shina, took many excursions: to aweekend festival for the blooming of thecherry trees; to the seashore at Kyeok-Powhere he encountered a stone mermaid; tothe Song-Gwang Temple decorated withcolorful paper lanterns for Buddha’s birth-day; to the Dong-Go temple with its “giantwhite Buddha”; and to a monument toDan-Gun, the mythical founder of Korea,

with statues of the 12 animals of theAsian zodiac. In the following reflection,written in February, Grotjohn compareshis recent visit to Korea to the one hemade 25 years ago:

“Last spring, I was able to watch theLotus Lantern Festival parade — held tocelebrate Buddha’s birthday, in Gwangju,South Korea — for the first time in 25years. I remembered the parade, withthe lanterns glowing from the candlesinside them, as a magical brightness inthe dark downtown streets. Last year,the magic had diminished.

“At first, I saw that as a sign of myage: What is magical in one’s 20s some-times becomes mundane in one’s 50s.Then, it dawned on me that the changewasn’t in me; it was in the streets them-selves. In the 1980s, there were fewstreet or shop lights; in fact, neon wasillegal because of the energy cost. Now,downtown is illuminated by signs fromthe shops that line the streets.

“What at first seemed a disappoint-ing indication of my aging actually wasan encouraging indication of the eco-nomic progress of ‘The Miracle on theHan.’ The lanterns hadn’t become dark-er; the country had become brighter,and in many ways.

“In the early 1980s, the country suf-fered under a repressive authoritarianregime; now, there is a flourishingdemocracy. In the early 1980s, it wasunwise to mention in public the Gwangjupeople’s uprising of May 18, 1980; now,there is a People’s Democracy Park thatcelebrates the citizen-heroes of theuprising for the whole country. In theearly 1980s, there was no freedom of

the press; now, presidents and politi-cians are openly criticized in the mediaand throughout the active Korean‘Cyberworld.’ In the early 1980s, I knewone professor with a car; now, I know noprofessor without one. In the early1980s, the fields were plowed by oxen;now, tractors make the work less gruel-ing and the harvests larger.

“The magical candles in the lanternsmay have been dimmed by neon, butthat neon illuminates the magic of the‘Miracle.’”

With reporting by contributor Jacquelyn Beals and Liesel Nowak.

Top: Song-Gwang Temple; Middle: Taxiswith glowing lotus lanterns on theirroofs led the Lotus Lantern Festivalparade; Bottom: a parade float

ALUMNAE/I BOARD PRESIDENT 2010–12

Pamela Leigh Anderson ’84

As we reflect on our years at Mary Baldwin College, we are grateful for the academicknowledge, lifelong friends, principles, and wonderful memories we made while there. Asalumnae/i, we can help to ensure that young women have the same experiences we wereprivileged to enjoy by participating in student recruitment, social and civic engagement, andfundraising initiatives.

Words cannot express my sincere gratitude and awe at the commitment and leader-ship of our outgoing Alumnae/i Board and its president. I have served with Dori AkermanStiefel ’92 and the other great women on the board for the past two years, and this teamhas been second to none. Please join me in thanking them for their service and commit-ment to MBC.

Our new board — officially selected in April — includes 26 energetic and committedwomen representing eight states and seven decades. We meet twice a year as an entiregroup at MBC to reconnect with the college of today, interact with students, and plan newand exciting ways to engage fellow alumnae/i in Reunion, regional events, and giving to thecollege. As incoming president, I encourage you to:

! Host an event in your area! Participate in nearby college fairs! Connect with and/or refer prospective students! Act as an ambassador for MBC ! Make a financial gift to the Annual Fund

Your Alumnae/i Board is committed to carrying out the mission of the college, andurges all of you to return to campus to see for yourselves the vast and varied programs andopportunities MBC is providing for today’s young women. If you are not able to visit cam-pus, please browse the Web site at www.mbc.edu to keep up with the latest MBC news.

Please contact me or any board member with questions or suggestions. We are proudto represent all of you as we treasure our past and move forward together.

Pamela Leigh Anderson ’84

Parting thoughtsThank you for the privilege of serving as your Alumnae/i Association president. You canimagine what the last two years have been like — the sheer joy of representing our alum-nae/i at events, in meetings, and for special occasions. You also can imagine that I havelearned a great deal; two salient lessons emerged from this experience: 1) Mary Baldwinconsists of extraordinary faculty, staff, students, and alumnae/i. We are very lucky and veryblessed to be part of this school; and 2) As alumnae/i, everything we do makes a differ-ence, whether we are into social events, career networking, community involvement,admissions, or fundraising, we get to play and contribute.

I am excited about the future that awaits our school and our Alumnae/i Association, andI am especially excited about the excellent leadership we can expect from incomingAlumnae/i Association President Pam Anderson ’84.

Yours, Dorian Akerman Stiefel

ALUMNAE/I ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2010–11

Pamela Leigh Anderson ’84, presidentFleet Lynch Roberts ’81,

vice president/president electSallie Chellis Schisler ’67, secretary

Katherine Crawford Arrowsmith ’70 Nancy Clark Brand ’94Diahann “Buffy” DeBreaux-Watts ’93,

member-at-large Emily Alexander Douglas, committee chairDonia Stevens Eley ’02, member-at-largeSamantha Engstler ’11, STARS president Helen Stevens Forster ’83, committee chairVirginia Royster Francisco ’64Alison Rose Frei ’07Jessie Carr Haden ’54 Amanda Holloway ’02/’06Christie Hawkins Howell ’93Alison Kaufmann ’07, committee chairJennifer Brillhart Kibler ’91, executive director,

ex officioSusan Powell Leister ’68Theresa Cash Lewis ’99Lindsey Lieberman ’04Mary Catherine Smith Myrick ’01 Crystal Newcombe Nosal ’00Mary Beth Gorcys Pauley ’92,

committee chairKelley L. Rexroad ’79Debra “Debbie” Wolfe Shea ’77,

committee chair Ethel M. Smeak ’53, honorary memberJeanine Holmes Thomas ’87

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ClassColumns

1944CHARLOTTE CRAUN Bishop of BassettVA: “I am doing fine, except for sight andhearing; all this comes with age. Glad I amstill having birthdays!”

1947MIRIAM BUCKLES Helmen: “My hus-band, Bob, and I took a trip to Ireland lastfall. I thought we might be too old, but wemade it. We still travel back and forth to ourfarm in Highland County VA and see MAG-GIE CHURCHMAN Moffett for lunchoften.”

1949EVELYN LACY Roberson has two great-granddaughters: Evelyn Hensley Carpenter(3) and Katherine Caswell Carpenter (1).

1950MARY HORTON Waldron: “I married againon December 18, 2008. We enjoy life hereat Asbury Methodist Village MD, and it is abusy one. My husband’s name is Billy Ball.”JOYCE KAGIN McCauley: “My husband,Gentry, is in a nursing home here inVersailles KY, Taylor Manor. I have had aminor stroke. My children, Carl and Betsy,have been wonderful. I think of MBC often,and wish I could come back.” PATRICIAMARSH Wailes continues to enjoy living inFL in the fall, winter, and early spring. Shespends the summer in Somers NJ seeing alot of her 2 daughters, 3 grandchildren, and3 great-grandchildren. MARILYN SIMP-SON Williams writes, “Ben and I continueto enjoy our retirement. I can’t believe thatwe celebrated our 56th wedding anniver-sary June 3, 2009. We still belong to manyorganizations, charities, and church activi-ties. Our children and grandchildren keepus on the go.”

1951 REUNION ’11ALLETTA JERVEY of St. Paul MN isretired and reads books for the blind.

1952ERLINE GRIFFIN Eason invited her formerswimming students to help celebrate her80th birthday March 19 by swimming 80laps. She logged 20 laps per hour — stop-ping, of course, to have birthday cake andsocialize.

1955AMY MALOY Lindsly: “Last October wetook our three kids and spouses on a safariin Botswana — very exciting. This year Dickand I celebrate our 54th anniversary.”

1956BETTYE HURT Ingram: “Turning 75 hasbeen a jolt this year! All is well as long as Iforget my age. Still staying busy and enjoy-ing every day.”

1957Send your class notes to:Shannon Greene [email protected] GABEL Roeling: “After 26 yearsas a Christian education/early childhoodeducator, I went to Columbia Seminary in1987. For 9 years I was associate pastor atBroadmoor Presbyterian Church in BatonRouge LA. For 10 years before I retired in2007, I was associate presbyter for pro-gram and nurture, Presbytery of SouthLouisiana.”

1959MARGARET FOSTER Curtis has retired asa family nurse practitioner.

1960Send your class notes to:Sally Squires Erickson [email protected] is a big year for our class as we cele-brated our 50th reunion in April. Do youremember GUNILLA “NILLA” PHILIPSONKlose, the exchange student fromSweden? She was in our class junior yearand has many memories of MBC and theU.S. She speaks 10 languages and is cur-rently studying Yiddish. She is a massagetherapist and her daily transportation is bybike! She had planned to join us in April,but we are sorry she could not be with us.I am certain we would have surprised herwith our well-traveled class, which now hashad 50 years to add to our experiences.GWEN KENNEDY Neville Hunnicuttwrites that she remembers her first year inMemorial and that although she and PATTYPETTIT graduated in three years, they stillwish to be in our class with the friendsthey made there. JEANNE HERVEY Tricetells me that due to four shoulder surgeriesher activities are quite limited these days.She does not have a rotator cuff in either

shoulder, so she does not have muchstrength in either arm. “I am now relegatedto being like Mother and going to the saloneach week to have my hair done.” We weredisappointed that she could not be with usin April. GRETCHEN CLARKE Hobby e-mailed FLORENCE LEE Wellons that shehas now been living in Crawfordville FL forthe past two years and has a condo in theOrlando area. She says she has been in FL“since before Disney!” Her significantother has 3 children, 4 grandchildren, and 2great grandchildren. Gretchen’s daughter,Amy, is a movie producer in NYC and willshow her latest film at the SundanceFestival. You can see her work atwww.imdb.com, search AmyHobby. Gretchen retired from SeminoleCounty Library System 2 years ago, after20 years. She does volunteer work withWild Mammal Rescue and travels, goingtwice to the Netherlands. She reconnectedwith LINDA DAVIS Kirk, her former room-mate, in Houston. NANCY (BOO) HOOK-ER Manning has 3 married sons, 7 grand-children (4 girls and 3 boys) and 3 lovelydaughters-in-law!

1962Send your class notes to:Sally Heltzel [email protected] Kent Seabury [email protected] news: your 50th ReunionCommittee met in Richmond VA at the endof February to begin planning one fabulous,not-to-be missed, Reunion. We are hopingeveryone in our class will gather togetherand see how our beauty, brains, and tal-ents have just gotten better in the last 50years. We will keep you informed about theevent and we want all of you there. Welook forward to hearing about the greatthings you are doing. The committee isheaded by SUSAN JOHNSON High:[email protected] and PRIOR MEADECooper: [email protected]. Alsoon the committee are DOUGLAS LAUGH-ON Wallace, KENT SEABURY Rowe,RUTH DREWRY Smith, SALLY HELTZELPearsall, SHIRLEY FILE Robbins, SUSANJENNINGS Denson, LINDA DOLLYHammack, and ELIZABETH “BETSY”SCOTT Featherstone. We welcome anyexciting ideas you wish to share. For morecurrent news, we have learned that CAR-OLYN MODARELLI-Adams’ 15th grandba-by is on the way and she sounds just as

excited about this one as she was aboutthe first. Carolyn and husband, Nick, plan toreturn to England this fall to do more walk-ing tours and then to Germany to visit oneof her sons and his family. She is lookingforward to coming back to our 50th and tobring Nick with her. He is a Civil War buff,so he should feel right at home in theShenandoah Valley. BETTY CACCIA-PAGLIA Passagno continues to stay busyas a freelance editor of college text-books. She enjoys learning as she edits,even the chemistry texts, although she didnot study that science. She took off a weekin January to visit a friend who lives inLaguna Beach CA and feels fortunate thatshe went before the heavy rains hit thatarea. CAROLYN JONES Waghorne andhusband, Rik, are avid golfers andtravelers. She also volunteers for a drugand alcohol rehabilitation center in Dallas,which allows women patients to bring theirchildren with them. ELIZABETH “BETSY”SCOTT Featherstone: “I have retired fromcare-giving to my grandchildren, but still vol-unteer at St. Mary’s Hospital (RichmondVA), sing in my church choir, and work 2days a week in an heirloom sewing shop.”

1963Send your class notes to:Sally Dupree [email protected] Valley View Dr., Union Grove, AL 35175It’s been fun to hear from some of you. Wehad a great time at our mini-reunion at SeaView Inn on Pawley’s Island the first part ofApril! I heard recently from a few class-mates who couldn’t be there. GINNY HES-DORFER Maxwell: Tom and I are leavingthis Sunday to go to Stuart FL, for 3months. And from CARPIE GOULDCoulbourne: “I am sorry that I can’t makethe reunion. I will be moving to Raleigh atthat time. I hope you all have a grand timetogether.” TERRY GEGGIE Fridley sentword that she was looking forward to see-ing everyone there. JUDY LIPES Garstsent word of a family vacation, “TheGreenbrier Hotel is having Veterans’ Affairsweekends at special prices and events forpeople from the Virginias and Reid and Iwent in February. Our son, Reid, and hiswife Lisa (MBC ’88) joined us. The hotelhas opened the Bunker area to the public(built to accommodate the White Houseand legislature during the Cold War) andthey have added gambling.” HONEYINGLESH Shepperd writes, “I had thehappy surprise of a visit from SANDY

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ClassColumnsDINGESS Potter. She was in San Antoniofor medical tests, and we spent most ofthe day together when she was here. Wetalked about MBC, and since I have quite afew letters from Dr. Marshall Brice, I pro-duced them for Sandy to read. We readmany of them aloud, and reminisced aboutthat remarkable teacher. I always have feltso fortunate to have been one of his stu-dents. JUDY THOMPSON Hatcher writes;“I received a great Christmas card fromLYNNE FOBES Marion. There was this lit-tle pink piece of paper (insert) that reads: ‘ABig P.S. I sold my house December 19, webought a house December 28, I movedfrom one to the other January 27, and Budand I married March 6. Can you believeit?!’” A lot going on in that “girl’s” life —and it all sounds good. We can’t wait tohear to rest of the story. MELISSA KIMESMullgardt says there is nothing new, butthat is good in this day and age! EMILYDETHLOFF Ryan says, “MBC Houston hada wonderful evening at the HoustonCountry Club. We were all introduced tothe new academic dean, CatharineO’Connell.” Joining her from the collegewere JENNIFER BRILLHART Kibler ’91and JENNA SMITH ’97. It had been a longtime since Houston alums had gottentogether so we had lots of catching up todo. “Beautiful hors d’oeuvres and deliciouswine.”

1964FAIRFAX HARDESTY Montgomery: “I amenjoying retirement; spending time with myhusband (Roy), daughter, son-in-law, andgrandson who live close by; and visiting ourson, daughter-in-law, and granddaughters inBainbridge Island WA. I am very active atchurch and with library and museum.” ANNKING Harkins of Beckley WV is constantlybusy with church activities and grandchil-dren.

1965Send your class notes to:EMY MARTIN [email protected] or1 Blackwell Place, Philadelphia, PA 19147I live in Philadelphia and spend summers inVail CO, where I joined the Rotary Club. Ihope to see Randi there next summer.Michael works full time, and we have 8grandchildren who keep us young and sled-ding in these winter snowstorms! Mollylives nearby and Anne in NH. I co-chair ourchurch food cupboard, and love the art his-tory class I am auditing. It has been greathearing from many classmates, somewho’ve been out of touch for a long time. Itwas hard to condense their wonderful sto-ries. At print deadline, we expected about20 people for our 45th Reunion, whereclassmate ANN GORDON ABBOTT Evansreceived the Emily Smith Award for her out-standing contributions to her communityand the college. She is now second vicepresident of the Garden Club of VA and willbe president 2012–14. She and Russellhave a son and a daughter who graduatedfrom MBC in 1996. JUDY PAYNE Grey ofMontclair NJ enjoys her work as a grantwriter at Drew University, “a school withwonderful similarities to MBC,” and stays intouch with many classmates. Her son,John, graduated from University of Virginiain 2010 and will continue for an MA inteaching. They recently took a wonderfultrip to Egypt and Jordan. CHARLOTTETYSON Mewborn is in Farmville VA, andsadly lost her mother in January 2010, buthad a rare birthday celebration with hertwin sister. She sings in her church choirand enjoys her 3 grandchildren. She andhusband, John, traveled to France and

spent a week in Paris. In 2009 she sawBONNIE LAMB Mayo in Victoria BC. DEB-BIE BUCKLEY Fairley of Punta Gorda FLand Marty built 2 log homes for vacationrental in the Gatlinburg vicinity(www.froghop-properties.net). She enjoysbeing close to Smoky Mountain NationalPark. Their youngest child married in March,and they have 4 grandchildren. “Lovedbeing at our 40th [Reunion] sorry could notmake the 45th.” MARY LEWIS Hix of FallsChurch VA retired in 2007, and serves onboards at a retirement community, an earlychildhood program, and a non-governmen-tal organization in South Africa. She teachesfor CREDO, a clergy wellness program, andenjoys travel with Mike, a book group, andwater aerobics. Children: Rebecca, Habitatfor Humanity; Michael, climate changeresearch; Matthew, Peace Corps. JOAVERY does mediation and arbitration 3days a week, “a peace-making job I amprivileged to do,” in Atlanta GA. An attorneyfor 25 years, she and Bob have 6 grandchil-dren (ages 3 to18), and a silver standardpoodle puppy. They have traveled to China,Russia, and India, and celebrated Christmas2009 at Fripp Island SC. GAILMCMICHAEL Drew, of Durham, NC is onthe Board of Trustees of Elon University,where she previously served as chair. “Myson loved Elon, so it’s great to give back.”She enjoys travel with friends and takingcare of missionaries’ children who go toconferences. Her husband Dick died ofmelanoma in 2003. She manages DrewFamily Partners, is a trustee of theMcMichael Family Foundation, and adoresbeing with her 4 grandchildren. MEREDITHCARTER Paterson still does artwork,teaches high school ESL, and plays tennison 5 teams in Burlington NC. She and herhusband have 2 daughters in Spain and FL,and she uses Skype to chat with her grand-children. She saw ANNE GILLESPIEClements last summer in Bethlehem PAand keeps in touch with the Madrid group,especially MARY PICKETT Craddock, whowas also a high school friend. MARTHAFARMER Copeland is moving to LexingtonKY, where her children and grandchildrenlive. She will continue working at her law-office in Corbin KY, staying with her sisterpart-time and working by computer fromhome part-time. CAROL EMORY’s lawpractice in Portland OR focuses on interna-tional business and intellectual propertytransactions. She and Canadian significantother, Ed Tomashewsky, their Brittanyspaniel, and 2 cats vacation on their boat,moored off Vancouver Island, or go RV trav-eling. Her 5-year goal is to learn French and“develop an art form.” BONNIE BIEDER-WIDEN Klein of Durham PA says: “Themost exciting news I have is that myorchids are coming into bloom. I shouldhave majored in biology as I first intended— I’m a big gardener and garden clubberand probably a tree hugger as well.” MIN-ERVA DUDLEY THOMPSON Nolte(retired) was widowed in 2002. She is a fulltime organic farmer, raising PolledHerefords, Nubian goats, peafowl, walnuts,hazelnuts, grapes, and various vegetablesand fruit (www.laffalotfarm.com), and isprogram director of the Kinton Grange(www.kintongrange.org). “Come visit andsee the magnificent northwest.” ELIZA-BETH (BETTY RAY) MATTHEWS Morganlives on a sheep farm in Wallingford VT withher husband. “I spin the fleece from thesheep, hook rugs, and teach rug hooking.I’m working full time as an RN in a FamilyMedicine practice, and I still play the pianoand organ and sing in our church choir.”FAITH NEUSCHELL Burke and her hus-band have lived in Costa Rica for 3 years.They are active in the Biblioteca DavidKitson, were founders of the first lending

library outside of San Jose, and work toprotect local wildlife, especially Howlermonkeys. They spend one month a year“somewhere wonderful,” most recentlyRome. SUSAN BROWNE Webb and herhusband have retired to a log home on theJackson River, a blue ribbon trout streamnear Hot Springs VA. They play tennis inLexington and travel to Stuarts Draft andCharlottesville to check on Fred’s sister andher mother, and to Richmond to see their 2grandchildren. NAN DAVIS is “a happyretiree living the good life in NYC, with all ithas to offer. This spring I may go to Londonto visit friends, which I do annually. Iworked for the City of New York as a sys-tems manager before retiring.” JUDYBRYANT Skinner of Atlanta GA sadlyreports that her husband of 43 years, Bill,died in 2008. Both children are married andher daughter is expecting a baby in August.She is secretary/registrar at a small ele-mentary school. “The days fly by, and I’llwork as long as I can — or until they rollme out!” CAROL STEWART Shaw retired10 years ago as vice president of IT forGeneral Reinsurance and moved to CT. Shejoined a garden club and a bridge group andis “one of the ladies who lunch.” She andhusband, John, travel 3–4 months a year.“No grandchildren, but we’re grateful ourkids visit often.” DOROTHY IAFRATE Rudyand John own Madeline’s Vineyard inSonoma CA. She’s in law school afterteaching Spanish for 42 years and runs alanguage study business ([email protected]). They have 2 sons and 1granddaughter. JULIE McFARLAND host-ed “catorce preciosas chicas” from Madridat her home in Vancouver WA. MARSHANYE Adler works for a member ofthe Santa Clara County Board ofSupervisors, and Bill is a lawyer/consultantin Mountain View CA. Son Andrew’s novelTo the Last Drop was published in 2008.Stepson Josh lives in Washington DC; step-daughter Deborah is in New York. She looksforward to continued growth, travel, andactivity. PEGGY MALONE West lives inBaltimore MD and Butch practices law full-time. She retired from kindergarten teach-ing 3 years ago, but this year helped 3mornings a week with the parent/child 2-year-old class and loved it. She loves gar-dening and spending time with her 3 grand-children. SARA BEABOUT Hartman andSkip alternate between NYC and bucolicHudson NY, where she has a vegetable gar-den. She’s involved in a church upstate andcoordinates the Angel Tree program, whichprovides Christmas gifts to children of pris-oners. Daughter, Lauren, recently becameengaged and manages one of her hus-band’s tennis clubs. DALE MIDGETTESmith of Winter Park FL enjoys her coun-seling practice, and 3 grandsons nearby area joy for her and David. She “writes, sings,and dabbles in art projects.” She has newknees and is “moving through life in a moreflowing and enjoyable way.” JULENEREESE Roberts helped her after both sur-geries. ANN MEBANE LEVINE retired toAtlanta after 30 years in WV. She volunteersat The Carter Center and her granddaugh-ters’ school and takes classes “for oldfolks.” Her other daughter, a lawyer, andfamily have moved to Crozet VA, and herhusband works at James MadisonUniversity. JUDY ROY Hoffman moved toCollierville TN after 35 years in CA. Her hus-band Harlan passed away in 2005. She ispresident of the Women’s Club, and recent-ly cruised in the Greek Isles, going first toParis. In April 2009, she visited CharlestonSC with Emy and JUNE EARLY Fraim,who lives in Oakton VA. She teaches mathin an alternative school and “doesn’t use aslide rule any more!” She and Tom like totravel, spend time on their boat, and visit

their 2 sons and 4 grandchildren. “It’s a joykeeping in contact with MBC friends.” KAYEARLY ELIZABETH Dougherty and hus-band, David, are in their 17th year at The HillSchool, a boarding school in Pottstown PA,where he is headmaster. She taught highschool math, and has worked in admissionsand advancement at Hill, and was presidentof the Pottstown Symphony. They love tovisit their 2 grandchildren in Raleigh NC.DALE GATCHELL Webb of Little Rock ARclosed her garden shop in 2006 to spendtime with her parents in Memphis andgrandchildren in CO. She enjoys a gardenclub, book club, church needlepoint guild,and membership in the Herb Society ofAmerica. Roger teaches at University ofArkansas at Little Rock. JEAN MCCAULEYBennett of Red Bank NJ earned an MS inEducational Psychology and taught specialeducation in elementary and high school for26 years. She enjoys visiting her 9 grand-children and hopes that one of 5 grand-daughters will attend Mary Baldwin. RANDINYMAN Halsell of Dallas TX and Tomenjoy traveling, recently to Machu Piucchu.They have 5 grandchildren, 1 in Dallas and 4in CA, and a vacation home in CO. Shechaired “Celebrating Women,” raising $1.8million for breast cancer work at BaylorMedical Center. She also assisted PEGGYANDERSON Carr ’67 with a group touringHistoric Garden Week in VA in April. “BJ”BROWN McKell: “Life is good! Doing lotsof traveling and enjoying being retired”.

1966 REUNION ’11JANE BATES Hipps of Waynesville NCgraduated August 2008 with a master’sdegree in nursing from VanderbiltUniversity. She passed boards to be a certi-fied pediatric nurse practitioner. She retiredfrom public school education with 38 yearsof service. MARY “CELIA” CRITTENDENCatrett in Houston: “I am still an elemen-tary school librarian. Loving every book Iread to the children and loving the childreneven more than the books.”

1967Send your class notes to:Kathy Rice Knowles (Class Mama)[email protected] [email protected] 67 Ravens Roost Lane, Roseland, VA22967Susan McKeown [email protected] Lionberger [email protected], Angels in Disguise! We have anew format beginning in this issue of theMary Baldwin College Magazine, so yournews will be shared as a letter rather than acolumn. MARY DODSON Knight writesthat she and John have fled the snows ofWV and are enjoying spending wintermonths in FL, living in their motor homeand enjoying the balmy breezes. Mary ishaving very good results with her rigorousphysical therapy at Kennedy Krieger SpinalCord Injury Center and has quilting projectsand several books going all the time.PEGGY MADDEX Barnes plays golf with agreat group of friends and has revived herlove of knitting with a church prayer shawlgroup. Our condolences go to Peggy,whose father passed away in 2009 at age95. JUDY PUGH Stone coordinates thecommunity garden at her local farm muse-um, mentors a group of first year studentsat Yale Divinity School, and is auditing acourse in the Yale Forestry Department.ANGELA BLOSE Corley had aortic valvereplacement surgery in 2009 and wasnursed back to health by husband, Bill.Thanks to all classmates who kept Angela


in mind with e-mails and letters duringher convalescence. ANNE STRIBLINGDingledine has taken a new position asmanaging editor at Oxford UniversityPress, working on English language mate-rials for children. Anne and John enjoytheir 2 grandchildren; their son Jonathanis in law school in NYC. Anne has takenher middle name, Stribling, as her lastname. With sorrow we learned of thedeath of ELLEN ANDERSON Hill’s hus-band, Jud, on Christmas Eve 2009. Ellenwas comforted by the messages andcalls she received from classmates. BAR-BARA HORNER-Miller broke her handwhile on a business trip in October 2009.She spent 6 weeks in a cast and contin-ues in physical therapy to restore move-ment. MARGARET ALLEN Palmer andAlex live in Beaver Creek CO winter andsummer. Daughter Elizabeth married in2009 and will live in NYC with her hus-band. Son, Stokes, and his wife areexpecting their third child in 2010 and livenear Margaret in Nashville. Margaretenjoys her golf group, bridge lessons andvolunteering. JANICE SMITH Barrywrites from Jupiter FL that she staysbusy with investment club, book club,church activities and volunteering withMeals on Wheels and Lighthouse. Janiceinvites classmates to visit her in sunnyFL. ROSA MCLAUGHLIN Heinsohn andEric will celebrate their 20th anniversaryin 2010. Son Luke is a first-year student atW&L and 10 of Rosa’s 14 grandchildrenlive on or near their farm in Charlottesville.Rosa’s son Bo Carrington works in TX.SHERRY “DIANE” DINWIDDIE Andresent the class another list of excellentbooks for 2010. She will substitute asmedia specialist for 6 weeks and thentake off for England with friends. Dianetook a river cruise from Vienna toAmsterdam in 2009 and hopes to enjoymore cruises as well as her annual tripsto England. SUSAN MASSIE completedher final treatments for cancer and isrecuperating, enjoying her daughters andher loving messages from friends. Susansays, “Cancer is about learning to under-stand love at a deeper level. here is noend to the positive effects of prayerfulenergy from friends.” Susan has appreci-ated regular correspondence fromPEGGY ANDERSON Carr, who, althougha busy and committed volunteer for sev-eral organizations, always takes time tokeep up with classmates with words ofencouragement and cheer. Peggy alsoteaches adult Sunday School, knits withthe prayer shawl ministry, reads vora-ciously, has managed several big Dallasfundraiser events, travels to see family,and planned a bus trip to VA duringGarden Week with the Dallas GardenClub. DIXIE EPES Hoggan is planningthis grand event with Peggy. Our condo-lences go to MARGARET JENNINGSMetz, whose mother passed away in2009. Margaret and Bob live inClearwater FL and she enjoys her 2granddaughters, 3 married children (Bob,Merriann, and Melissa) and her book club,sewing group, and church activities.Margaret and Bob spend as much time aspossible at their mountain cabin in NC.LYNN WILLIAMS Wood and Greg live inthe MD suburbs near their daughter andher family. Lynn has retired from herteaching job and plays with grandsonsJohn (3) and Joseph (1) several times aweek. Daughter Beth is a meteorologistand Lynn enjoys book group, photogra-phy, family research, and church outreachministry. MARGARET “PEGGY” WEAV-ER Crosson has retired and lives inFincastle VA in a restored 1921 farm-house with a peacock, a potbelly pig, and

a rooster, among other wildlife. DaughterCarr and grandsons Jack, 6, and Dabney,4, provide Peggy with the opportunity tohold “NannaCamp” every summer. SonTyson lives at Lake Tahoe and loves theRockies. LUCIA LIONBERGER Thomaswill have 2 more grandchildren, twins, bythe time this column goes to press. Luciaretired in 2009 but continues to workpart-time for an adult education programwhile serving on the Head Start board inWinchester VA. RHETT CUTHBERTCampbell and Mike live at Lake MurraySC, a bird-watching haven. Rhett takes artclasses at University of South Carolinaand sees children Bill, in Charlotte NC,and Meg, mother of 2 little boys, in SaltLake City UT, as often as possible.SUZANNE PERRY Turnbull and Ned livein Laurel MS and spend as much time aspossible at their mountain home inCashiers NC where Suzanne shares anart studio with friends. Suzanne had hipreplacement surgery this year, joining the“titanium joint club” of which so many ofus are members. SUSAN POWELLNorton still owns and directs the JuniorAssembly Cotillion of Richmond with hertwo daughters, Katherine and Liz.Husband, Dave, is retired, giving themtime to volunteer, participate in Biblestudy, bridge group and to play with their4 granddaughters and 1 grandson.Daughter, Carolyn, works for Coca Cola inAtlanta. SYLVIA SHEPARD Dalke and Billlive in Whitefield ME and continue to sup-port their local nature center as volun-teers. Daughter Keith teaches ESL anddaughter Kara is a medical student. Sylviaand Bill enjoy hosting their grandsons fora month every summer, and Sylvia hasbecome a master gardener volunteer. Atleast two classmates have rehabbedhomes in their local historic districts andare enjoying life with no yard. KIP COO-LEY McDaniel and Joe volunteer fordowntown revitalization, local museums,and their church. Children Carey andStites are both married and Kip and Joeenjoy playing with local grandchildrenEmma and Alex and anticipate anothergranddaughter in NY in spring 2010. PAMMELSON Sutton and Stark live in down-town Savannah GA in a restored historichome and Pam has enjoyed a career inreal estate for many years. Their 2 sonslive in Charleston and Pam loves beinggrandmother to Sam (3). LOUISE TABBWhipple and Fred continue to commutebetween Richmond and their farm inBrownsburg VA. Louise substitutes teach-ing ESL, volunteers at church, reads withher book group and loves being grandmaLouLou to Alice (2). PAT FORBES contin-ues her studio art (www.patriciaforbe-sart.com) and enjoys trips from her homein Albuquerque to San Francisco to visitdaughter Abby, her husband Stephen, andSienna (2). Pat and partner Tom Milesrecently completed a Mexican Rivieracruise and are hosting home workshopsbased on R. Scheinfeld’s books, BustingLoose from the Business Game andBusting Loose from the Money Game.KATHY RICE Knowles and Robbie havelived at Wintergreen VA for 10 years, trav-eling to NC, CA, and MA to visit kids andgrandkids several times a year. Sons Jimand Rob earned doctorates in 2009 anddaughter English is taking courses tobegin a new career in nursing. “We volun-teer with the archaeological survey on ourmountain, hold Camp Mumaa for our 5grandchildren each summer, and live sim-ply, keeping up with friends and trying totread lightly on our little corner of theworld. Thanks to our great class for stay-ing in touch!” VIRGINIA “GINGER”PUCKETT Grizzard of Roanoke Rapids

NC: “I am enjoying retirement and grand-children. Bill and I hope to do more travel-ing when he retires for good.” LYNNWILLIAMS Wood says, “Life is full with 2grandsons (ages 1 and 3) close by, churchleadership roles, family research, photog-raphy, travel, and friends. Greg teachesFrench 5 minutes from our house in OlneyMD. ELIZABETH TROXELL Jones hastwo grandchildren: granddaughter, RoryJones (3) and grandson, Liam Jones (1).

1968Send your class notes to:Susanne “Sue” Dyer Stanley [email protected] 6645 32nd St NW, Washington, DC20015Hi Ladies, just a few updates this time.Remember you can send info to my e-mail or mail a letter any time. JEANNIELINN Oster retired from the Peace Corpsin February after 22 years in the govern-ment. Son, Matt, and his wife, Emily, livein La Paz, Bolivia where Emily works forCatholic Relief and Matt for the Chamberof Commerce. Their daughter, Alexandra,is at UCLA grad school for urban planning.Jeannie’s husband, Charles, has beenretired for a few years. SHARON GRAYDuncan and her husband, Ted, moved toWestminister CO a few years ago afterbeing in Oklahoma City for many years.They have 3 children and 6 grandchildren.Daughter, Sarah, and her family live inHouston. Judson and his family live inSingapore where he works for Emerson,and Michael and family live in Chicago.BROOKS MCMURRIA Morgan, “I wasremarried in June 2007 to wonderfulHoward Campbell Morgan and inherited11 grandchildren. Neither of my childrenwere married at that time, but Alexandramarried Kevin Williams in October 2009 ina beautiful NYC wedding. Austin is asinger/songwriter in Los Angeles. I amincredibly blessed. MARGARET ANNEROBERTSON Fohl in Lancaster VA lovesretirement. Although she is just as busyas ever! Her daughter, Katie, marriedSean May 30, 2009. ANNE WALKERMilliken has 4 young grandchildren, 2boys and 2 girls. NORMA CARLAFALKINER Buzzard has a new grand-daughter, Emma, born in March 2009.Her daughter received her Master of Artsin Teaching from MBC.

1969Send your class notes to:Martha [email protected]

1970Send your class notes to:Elizabeth “Liz” [email protected] 542 Middleton Court, St. Louis, MO63122CONNIE KITTLE Neer continues her lifein Rochester NY as an actor, substituteteacher, and yogi. She gets down toBroadway a few times a year where herdaughter, Cary, allows her a couple ofnights in her Upper East Side apartment.Son, Tyler, lives in Chicago. Husband,Mike, is in his 34th season as head bas-ketball coach at University of Rochester.SCOTTIE LAKE Lindsay and Scott areentering retirement and will be movingfrom Charlotte NC to alternate betweenliving in Montreat NC and Bluffton SC.She wants to know if any MBC girls livein either area. They have 4 grandchildrenages 3–6, a King Charles Cavalier Spanielthey love, and lots of excitement aboutwhat is ahead. VIRGINIA “GINNY” LEE

KINTZ is a partner in the largest inde-pendently owned long-term care agencyin the U.S., Long Term Care FinancialPartners. She has been a long-term careplanner for 13 years. Ginny owns andlives on an 85-acre horse farm in upstateNY with her Morgan horses, which sherides, carriage-drives, and occasionallyshows. She’s involved in local andstatewide politics, and still makes regulartrips to DC (she attended Obama’s inau-guration). She plays the flute in a commu-nity band and volunteers on non-profitboards. She was recently appointed bythe Governor of New York to the SUNYCollege Council. Ginny travels abroad asmuch as her schedule will allow. MAR-GARET HAWKINS Oosterman and hus-band, Carl, who is retiring, put their houseon the market. So, as she noted, “chaosreins.” JANE GRAVES Bartlett and Jimlive and work in Baltimore. Jane is inLower School admissions at GilmanSchool and also directs one of the sum-mer outreach programs. Their son is amajor in the Air Force; he and his wife livein Navarre FL. Their daughter is an interiordesigner with a firm in Baltimore.MARTHA BOOTH Jennison and Jay arein St. Augustine FL. Their oldest daughter,Clarinda, is in Redding CA, and the couplewelcomed their first little girl, CeliaMcFadden, on January 19. Martha andJay’s second daughter, Catherine, marriedlast year in Durham NC, and works forDuke University Office of Alumni Affairs.Their son, John, has returned fromBeijing, where he worked for Apple fortwo years. He is now with Apple’s SouthAmerican division, traveling from Miami.ZOE KERBEY Holmes and Steve movedto Rockwall TX in July 2007, so that Zoecould work in the Dallas office of Marsh,Inc. She continues as an aviation insur-ance broker/attorney. She and Steve wentto Disney World in December with their 2daughters and their families. Zoe highlyrecommends grandchildren. They cele-brated their grandson Alex’s 8th birthdaywhile there. They also have a beautifulgranddaughter, Zoe Elizabeth (3). Sherecently was elected to vestry at herchurch, and spends most of her sparetime in ministries there. She is a homeEucharistic visitor (taking communion toshut-ins), and she sings in the choir. Shealso belongs to two book clubs, as read-ing continues to be her favorite pastime.On March 16, JEAN GRAINGER spon-sored a cocktail party at the Colony Clubin New York to introduce Dr. CatharineO’Connell, MBC’s new vice president foracademic affairs and dean of the college.DIANE DARNELL Hughes says that thebig news there is snow, snow, and moresnow! Grandson, Christopher, is in firstgrade, and Diane is delighted to havehim living in their neighborhood.Husband, Michael, hoped to get his entirecast (and pit orchestra) to camp out atschool for the next month to finishrehearsals for Fiddler on the Roof. ANNDILLINGER Elgin has spent her workingcareer in non-profits and recently retiredwhen her husband, Doug, retired. Theyhave spent the last several years travelingand volunteering at church. Ann and Doughad a fascinating trip to China in June2009 and have enjoyed cruises to theMediterranean, Caribbean, and AK. Theyhope to go to Egypt and Israel next year.Their daughter is an environmentalist insouth FL working for an engineering com-pany. And their son, who played basket-ball in college, followed his dream ofworking for the Atlanta Hawks as a mar-keting manager for the Atlanta Spiritwhich owns the Hawks, the Thrashers(hockey), and Philips Arena. His wife is an

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ClassColumnselementary teacher. MARGARET“PEGGY” HAILE McPhillips: “My job asNorfolk City historian keeps me busy,with no plans for retirement in sight. Ienjoyed a 3-day visit from roommateCAROLYN BASS Armentrout and hus-band, Al, in September. Carolyn and Iplayed at VA Beach for 3 days while Algolfed. It seems impossible that our 40thReunion was this year!”

1971 REUNION ’11MARY BACON JOHNSON Williams:“We have been in Chattanooga TN since1993. My son, James, is a pro mountainbike racer, who also writes for the BendOR daily newspaper and tutors. Daughter,Megan, was married December 2008 andis a physician’s assistant in middle TN.Dan and I are retired and having fun.”From MELISSA WIMBISH Ferrell: “I ampracticing as an LCSW with the PalliativeCare Program at Bon Secours St. Mary’sHospital (Richmond VA). My daughterLacy is majoring in history (African) andher wife, Geraldine, is majoring in politicalscience at University of Wisconsin atMadison. Daughter Laura graduated withan MSW from NYU in May 2010. SUSANPOPE Justesen is owner and director ofMs. Susan’s School of Music inGreenwood SC.

1972Send your notes to your class to:Elizabeth “Liz” Smith [email protected] Timonium Terrace, NorthPotomac, MD 20878After recently rummaging through MBCmaterials I found and added many e-mailaddresses to my list. I hope they are cur-rent. If you know of class friends who donot receive my missives, please encour-age them to send their addresses to me.CARTER MOFFETT Douglass lives inStaunton where her husband, Brent, isfacilities director at MBC. Daughter,Stewart, goes to Blue Ridge CommunityCollege and son, Lewis, is a freshman atRandolph-Macon. She is getting helpfrom PHYLLLIS HOPKINSON with heron-the-side flower business, Fleurish, andis on the board of the Furious FlowerPoetry Center at James MadisonUniversity. PLAYER MCPHAUL wel-comed her 2nd granddaughter, Amelia,who joins big sister Elizabeth. “They arein Charlotte so I get to see them often.”JEANNE JACKSON took a group of stu-dents from Birmingham-SouthernCollege to Costa Rica for a few weeks inJanuary to study sustainability and eco-tourism. “Hard not to like my job!” JILLKEILY looks forward to completing thesale of her 3rd flower shop: “Retirementsounds terrific.” LINDA RABER Jahnigis human resources coordinator for TheWalker School in Marietta GA. Her son,Morgan, a member of the Old CrowMedicine Show band, was married lastJune. Daughter, Lindsay, works in NYC inproperty management. Husband, David,consults in Capetown, South Africa.JANE RAYSON Howard wanted to passon her updated e-mail addresses:[email protected] (personal) [email protected] (business).ELAINE HENDERSON Fowler, “My old-est child, Jason, just received his civilengineering degree from ClemsonUniversity and my youngest, Ross, is a1st year student at UVA and loves it.”JULIA HENLEY of Richmond VA writes,“It is hard to believe that I have been awidow for almost 10 years. My children

are doing well. Elizabeth is a junior atUniversity of South Carolina and plans tospend the spring semester in NewZealand, and my son, Henley Hopkinson,is a junior at St. Christopher’s inRichmond.

1973Send your class notes to:Donna [email protected] Wilgus [email protected] M. YOUNT: “I continuedelivering executive coaching services todevelop federal and county leaders. Stillsinging in my church choir and love totravel. Two of our 4 sons are married.Two sons have deployed to Iraq andreturned safely. Life is good!”

1975 SUSAN LEMON Hobbs writes, “Ourson, Cabell, is 28 and is a managing part-ner of his financial consulting firm inNorthern VA and doing well. Our daugh-ter, Morgan, is a designated scholar atSouthern Methodist University studyingaccounting. She was selected to attendOxford College this past summer, so Jimand I took the opportunity to visit herand tour the Cotswolds. To our delight,one professor invited us to class andeven requested us to participate. It wasso much fun! We had lunch in the 13th-century hall of University College, whichwas quite beautiful. EVA STIMSON ofLouisville KY: “My 18-year-old twins,Luke and Rachel, graduated from highschool this year. Rachel is in college inChicago, and Luke is doing a year of vol-unteer work in Haines AK. My husband,Jerry, and I are empty-nesters.”

1976 REUNION ’11CAROL “LYNN” HOWARD Lawrencesays, “It’s hard to believe we’ve been inCharleston SC for 7 years. Made my firstmission trip to Burundi and we continueour work here to serve the people ofBurundi. Continuing to teach pre-K andcalligraphy as well as work on a chil-dren’s book.” KATHRYN “KATE” LEE ofSouth Hadley MA is starting her 8th yearas a multimedia courseware designer atSmith College. She is a volunteer pro-ducer for ESPN’s “Shoot Around withBeth and Debbie.” She visited DIANAPARKER ’73 in Eliot MA and CON-STANCE BAK ’75 and SHIRLEY DOU-GLASS ’76 in Richmond VA. LINDAPEREZ Limo: “I am currently teachingSpanish in Arlington VA and loving it.”DANA LECKIE is helping organize theupcoming Reunion in 2011. “I am lookingfor full participation from fellow class-mates,” she said.

1977Send your class notes to:Pam Martin [email protected]

1978FAYE KATHRYN ANDREWS Drawdy: “Iwas married December 21, 2009, toDavid D. Drawdy. We married at DisneyWorld in Orlando FL, and celebrated ourhoneymoon there as well. By June, wehope our new home construction will befinished in Stafford County VA.

1979Send your class notes to:Kelley [email protected] GORDON Rosen writes, “I leftthe Department of Justice in 2005. Myhusband and I went to China an August2006 to get our daughter, Hannah. She is4 now and we love her very, very much!”

1980Send your class notes to:Laura Reed [email protected] 19 Turkey Foot Ct, Darnestown, MD20878-3645 Hello Class of 1980: “No one dares to callus ladies!” I heard from many of youwhen I asked about our class song — itwas wonderful. As I’m writing, theWashington DC area is blanketed by amajor snow storm — we supposed tohave record/history making snow! This isa sampling of who was planning to cometo our 30th Reunion: LYNN TUGGLEGilliand (Reunion president), LAURAREED Bivans (Reunion secretary),TRUDY MARTIN Rauch, MARLENEDENNY Jones, DIANA MOORERasnick, KATHERINE “KATIE” PIERSONColden, SUSAN MOOMAW Moring,and LISA PETTY. During the class songdiscussion I also heard from people whocouldn’t make Reunion, but will be withus in spirit: ALEXANDER TUCKERBarfield and ALISE LEARNED Mahr. Ialso heard from JENNIFER WALKER,KELLY HUFFMAN Ellis, MOLLY SHIFLETO’Brien, and ELIZABETH “LIZ” WORDGentry. I finally found an original copy ofthe class song in my senior yearbook;practice so we can all sing it together:

“We’re the Class of 1980, no one dares to call us ladies.Wahoos say we trash their frats.Weekend rolls we’ve got down pat. Rebel Yell, and beer, and grain; we drink so much we go insane!We’re the Class of ’80 proof.1 – 9 – 8 – 0. Hey!”

CHERYL JANE NAETZKER is enjoying adiverse IT career with Wellpoint, Inc. andpursuing portfolio management. Shesailed a 4th summer as crew with FishingBay Yacht Club and catches up with MAR-TINA “TINA” GRAHAM Creger whenev-er possible.

1981 REUNION ’11MARY CATHERINE MITCHELL Amosand husband, Allen, of Charlotte NCbecame grandparents in January. Son,Tripp, and daughter-in-law, Gabby, ofKnightdale NC now have a baby boy,Ralph Allen “AJ” Amos IV.

1982RUTH DOUMLELE’s new book, TheRandolph Women … and their Men, waspublished in February 2010. It is a nonfic-tion account of a southern post-Revolutionary era family that intersectswith the likes of Thomas Jefferson andJames Madison.

1983Send your class notes to:Georgianne Miller [email protected] [email protected] Anderson [email protected] Linden Avenue, Lynchburg, VA24503 We continue to ask people to add them-selves to the Boldly Baldwin class pagesfor the Class of 1983. Go towww.mbc.edu/baldwinconnect to addyour information. MEGG POTTER Raderhas two successful art galleries in RaleighNC. The Collectors Gallery focuses on NCfine craft and The Mahler Fine Art featuresart in multiple disciplines — paintings andsculpture primarily. Both galleries are onFacebook. She is very busy with 2teenagers, Mary Stiles (16) and Rob (15).JILL JOHNSON Horton lives inColumbia SC since returning from living inChina for the past 16 years. She leads avery busy life working as an ESOLteacher in an elementary school andkeeping up with the little ones, a daughter(7) and son (3 1/2) who were both adopt-ed from China. CHANDLER CURDWheeling is enjoying being a cancernurse at Carillion Roanoke MemorialHospital in Roanoke VA. Husband, Randy,joins Chandler in traveling, which is whatthey live for all year. Last year’s tripsincluded Las Vegas to see Bette Midler,Howie Mandell, Rita Rudner, and PaulMcCartney. The last FL trip included thewedding of a friend’s daughter and a tripto Disney. At the end of April theyplanned to travel on the Royal CaribbeanOasis (yes, the 18-story high boat with azip line and a park) to the Bahamas. LISAHOUGH Hays is working for SocialSecurity Disability as a senior disabilitydetermination specialist in Raleigh NC.Jonathan, her son, is studying to be adoctor of physical therapy at East CarolinaUniversity. Lisa’s dad died two years agoand is buried in Arlington NationalCemetery and her mom is lives in OahuHI. Lisa continues to support MaryBaldwin through the Annual Fund. KIMMcGEE Robertson is living in VA and hasbeen married for 22 years. Kim works asa civil employee at Quantico MarineCorps base as a financial managementanalyst. Kim has one child, Kyle, a junior inhigh school. Kim keeps in touch withMBC classmates JANE KORNEGAY,MARY SANTUCCI and BARBARAPRICE. Celebrating the completion of hermaster’s degree in health administrationis GEORGIANNE MILLER Mitchell. Afterattending the 30th Reunion, EILEENKOHLERMAN Foti rekindled her fire forlearning and Georgianne started the pro-gram that summer. Georgianne is current-ly looking for a job in disaster medicine,planning, and mitigation with a city, state,or federal agency in the greaterWashington area. ORA SMITH is workingfor Cora Bett Thomas Realty in CharlestonSC and loves it. BETH HEFFERNENSucher works at Blue Cross Blue Shieldof TN. Beth’s son, Devin, and his newwife are living in HI. SHARON HAYESSiegmeister’s son Hanokh attends schoolin Netanya, Israel; son Elisha also goes toschool there. LORETTA VIGIL Tabb andher husband, Mach, are official “emptynesters.” Their youngest, Angela, is afreshman at VA Tech. Daughter, Ashley, isworking on her master’s/certification atVA Tech and plans to teach high schoolphysics in the fall. Loretta is the financialadvisor at Wells Fargo Advisors inRichmond. March will mark 19 years with


the organization. MELINDA LEE CAIN, “Ihave retired from the natural gas busi-ness after more than 20 years. I am a co-host for an online talk radio show onTuesday nights called RundgrenRadio.com, and a concert promoter for1970s musician, Todd Rundgren.” SALLYPRUETT Putnam of Clifton Forge VA haswritten several articles promoting MBCand does this at every opportunity. Sallywas in one of the first graduating classesof the Adult Degree Program at MBC.

1984 Send your class notes to:Robin [email protected] Spur Road, Springfield, VA 22153Greetings classmates! Please continue toshare your class notes by sending anyupdates to me at either address above.RENEE OLANDER recently attended theU.S. Poets in Mexico conference inMerida, Yucatan, and had the thrill of visit-ing the ancient Toltec/Mayan city ofChichen Itza. She continues to direct VABeach operations for Old DominionUniversity. Finishing Line Pressannounced that it will publish A FewSpells, a collection of her poems, in 2010.ROBIN NEWCOMB Lermo and daughterLeslie (10) and CATHY HARRELLPennington and daughter Mary Slade(10) enjoyed a few days together in NewYork City during Thanksgiving week.Viewing the Thanksgiving parade was ahighlight. Cathy also writes that she con-tinues to love living in Atlanta and meet-ing up with classmates. She had a greatholiday lunch with JULIE SLAVIKBudnik, PAM ANDERSON Leigh, andGAYLA DODSON. They hope to get oth-ers in the area together in the spring foranother mini-reunion. Please look her upif you are in the area.

1985KATHERINE GALUSHA Ross: “My hus-band and I opened an antique store with20 percent of sales going to animal chari-ties, but we just had to close the storedue to the economy, especially bad downhere (Wanchese NC). Everyone has losttheir jobs, so sad.” KAROL SVINDLANDDerflinger of Front Royal VA was promot-ed to therapeutic day treatment directorof the Winchester VA regional office ofFamily Preservation Services.

1987Send your class notes to:MacKay Morris [email protected] has been fun hearing from so many ofyou — and I have lots of news to shareabout our classmates. KERRI COSTIGANBeckert reports that she and her, hus-band, Chris and family have moved backeast. This is their 15th Army move in 22years. Chris is now a colonel at ThePentagon. Daughter Kate (18) started col-lege this fall and daughter Emma (14)headed off to boarding school with herhorse, where she got a varsity letter onthe equestrian team. Now that she’s anempty-nester, Kerri has returned toschool and to full-time work. She is work-ing on becoming a licensed clinical socialworker and is the National ProgramManager for Parent to Parent NationalGuard and Reserve, an organization thatensures quality educational opportunitiesfor military children. Fellow SquirrelDONNA CASON Smith ’86 hosted aparty to welcome Kerri backeast. LAURA RUHL Emery is also back

east after living in Portland OR for 11years. Laura, her husband, Rick, and theirchildren Jack (9), Sean (7), and Lucy (3)moved to Charlottesville, just in time forthe snow. Rick is from southern CA, sothe transition has been a little tough forhim. Laura was an interior designer inPortland and is using her skills to remodelher home. ALLISON YOUNG Smith isbusy shuttling children Rhodes (11) andLillian (8) back and forth to school andother activities. Allison is also classadministrator for her local Bible StudyFellowship and serves on the vestry ofthe newly seeded Winchester AnglicanChurch. LOU HALL Bloxom continues toteach kindergarten at BroadwaterAcademy on VA’s Eastern Shore. BothLou and her husband graduated fromBroadwater in the 1980s and now herthree children, Blaire (a senior), Madison(a sophomore), and Brant (first grade),are students there. Blaire is looking at allsorts of great colleges — her top choicesare Princeton, Davidson, andGeorgetown. Blaire is also about to scoreher 1,000th point in basketball! Both sheand Madison play on the varsity basket-ball team at Broadwater and are leadingscorers. Brant also plays basketball in theparks and rec league. Lou says she’s theonly one in the family who did not getthe basketball gene. KERRY SVOBODAreported in from Jackson Hole WY,where she was enjoying a week of skiingwith friends. From there, Kerry heads toHeavenly CA (Tahoe) for another week ofski fun. Kerry, BARBARA GRANTCrosby, and I will meet up soon at ourfavorite restaurant in Richmond. It hasbeen such a pleasure hearing from somany of you. Keep those class notescoming!

1988Send your class notes to:Denise Dorsey [email protected] HOLLAND and SUZ LOCHNERrecently met for a quick lunch and tocatch up. Although they live in the samecity, they usually only bump into eachother at the YMCA or grocery store.They have made a pact to get togethermore often and include other local class-mates to rebuild old ties. A challenge toSquirrels everywhere! Suz and JULIESEAVOR Sanger ran into each other

while working backstage for ShenandoahCivic Dance Company’s annual productionof The Nutcracker. Julie’s daughter, a sea-soned ballerina, was dancing as a PartyGirl,and Suz’s daughter was making herfirst appearance on stage as aGingersnap. Sister Squirrels DEBBIEWEUNSCH Hanes, LISA DRESSLERGarst, MARY CHESS DONALD Pitman,and Suz met in November to celebrateMary Chess’ birthday (shhh … we won’tsay which one). They enjoyed good food,conversation, and shopping.

1989Send your class notes to:Sharron Jackson [email protected] P O Box 23125, Richmond,VA 23223As always, I’m happy to share with younews of our fellow classmates. The ladiesof the Class of 1989 are moving forwarddoing new and exciting things. TINAWARWICK Fitzgerald left the east coastin summer of 2007 to live in San AntonioTX with her husband of 19 years, Fitz,and 2 children, Connor (12) and Caroline(8). Their goal this year is to explore TX aswell as get their son prepared to repre-sent his country as a student ambassadorwith the People to People program bytraveling to 6 European countries thissummer. Tina teaches history part time ather children’s school and loves it. In herwords, “I, at my young age, also took uptennis last spring. I’m on a 2.5 team andwe actually made it to states. Though wedidn’t win, we had fun trying. I’m stillsinging and have had the great opportuni-ty to be coached by two BostonConservatory Masters.” SARAHMCCLELLAN Holman and husband,John, began a new career path in 2009.They opened Fabulous Salon, a full-serv-ice salon, in the Wintergreen VA area.Their girls, Lydia (14) and Marlena (9), areboth active in school and other activities.Lydia recently started modeling inCharlottesville and Richmond.

1992Send your class notes to:Heather [email protected] [email protected] J. TRIPPEL writes, “We’re getting

ready for our 10th Annual Very SpecialArts (VSA) Exhibit at the Martin LutherKing Center. I will be exhibiting my workin it and some of my students here atPost High will be as well. I have beenshowing my paintings with VSA since1988 when they featured me in theChallenges art show that traveled to eightdifferent locations around the state. PostHigh is an after-high-school transitionalprogram for students with disabilities tobecome as independent as possible upongraduation. I create various forms ofpainting with our students. I hope you allare well.”

1993Send your class notes to:Rebekah “Bekah” Conn [email protected] 306 S Court, St., Lewisburg, WV 24901 I am so grateful for the emergence ofFacebook; I feel like I know so muchabout our class. Still, I want to encourageyou to send me information about yourlives: jobs, families, travels, etc. Yourupdates help the MBC community learnabout you. For this issue, I just have afew updates; if you’d like to be included ina future issue, please contact me. DANAAILSWORTH and husband, Troy Craig,live in Richmond where she is senioraccount director for AQUENT, a globalmarketing and creative services staffingfirm. Dana, celebrating her 10th yearanniversary with AQUENT, managesclient relationships with organizationssuch as Capital One, MWV, and theMartin Agency. CYNTHIA STEPHENSBolling works as an occupational thera-pist at Franklin Health and RehabilitationCenter outside Roanoke VA. She and hus-band, Courtney, have two children Evelyn(4) and Christian (1). REBEKAH CONNFoster keeps busy as mom to Georgia (9)and Fielding (5) and as a freelancegrantwriter; a manager and buyer for aneco-chic boutique, HazelBoutique; and asa Girl Friday to husband, John, withSmooth Ambler Spirits, a newly launchedcraft distillery in Lewisburg WV. EMILYOEHLER completed the Army 10-Miler inOctober and spent a week with CHRISTYANDREWS Walls and her 2 kids, Erinand Luke. Emily is the sustainer chair inthe Junior League of Northern Virginiaand her current client, Booz AllenHamilton, is the Warrior Transition

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Command that oversees the Army’swounded, injured, and ill soldiers. TRISHGREGORY HYLTON Rand and husband,Walter, celebrated their first anniversary.Fellow classmates CAMILLESHEAROUSE Sparkman, REBEKAHCONN Foster, HONEY JAFFE Tishgart,CATHERINE ODOM Quick, and ANNATOEPFFER Eckel attended the wedding.Trish works as communications directorfor Raleigh Realtors Association andteaches yoga.

1994Send your class notes to:Genie [email protected] WHITTAKER Timmons ofOwensboro KY writes, “I am working asa marriage and family therapist, memberof Phi Kappa Phi and AAMET. I have 2daughters, Kendall (13) and Alexis (11). Ikeep in contact with PEARL ALBINO ’93(my daughter’s godmother), LORRAINEPARETTI ’95, GINNY PITTMAN ’96,DENISE LANTZ ’95, and my “little sis-ter” at MBC, DORRIE CLARK ’97.”

1995Send your class notes to: Jennifer Markel [email protected] 13131 Forest Green Lane, Lovettsville,VA 20180JUDY MAE MOORE says, “I continue tosubstitute teach in the Charlotte Countyschool system, work as a tour guide/pub-lic relations representative at Central HighMuseum in Charlotte Court House VA,and volunteer as a librarian at WylliesburgCommunity library. I love Mary Baldwinand Staunton. I hope to visit again soon!Also, some of my poems are publishedon www.poetry.com.”

1996 REUNION ’11LISA TANSEY Jones became KLP com-munications manager for Hampton RoadsVA Chamber of Commerce in August2009.

1997Send your class notes to:Jenna [email protected] [email protected] McGinley [email protected] classmates! We hope everyone isenjoying life. Correction: HONORJOHNSON McCain and her wonderfulfamily (husband Bryson, son Barrett, anddaughter, Skye) live in CharlestonWV. We regret the error. It’s a baby (girl!)boom: Two classmates recently wel-comed second daughters. LAURENWARDER Gvillo and husband ofSammamish WA had Emily just afterThanksgiving, and SUZANNAH MEYERZachos and Nicholas of Columbia MDhad Zoe in February. Older sisters ClaireGvillo and Ana Zachos arethrilled. Congratulations to these grow-ing families. First daughters arrived forWENDY BARNES McEntee and Colin ofMemphis TN, who joyfully welcomedElly, and SUSAN NICHOLS Wright andMatthew of Washington DC, who saidhello to Caroline. “CESCA” RUSK-Wallace of Dumfries VA and Susan gottheir daughters together for an MBCplaydate. Cesca is in her third year ofteaching and is working on her mastersin early childhood special education at

George Mason University. ANGELAHALL of Raleigh NC tells us she spentlots of time in IA over the summer andfall working on a project for theDepartment of Revenue. Her familyrecently vacationed at Disney Worldwhere Angela “crowned” her 35th birth-day with dinner at Cinderella’s Castle.HOLLY SOUTH and family live inHonolulu HI where Holly works for theUS Navy as foreign securities assistantand international logistics officer. KATH-LEEN “KATIE” McCABE Thielen ofMarina del Rey CA shared that her hus-band, Jason, was an animator for therecent hit movies District 9 and Alvinand the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.JENNA SMITH has been so fortunate tosee many Squirrels as she travels forMBC as major gifts officer, includingAMANDA TALLEY in New Orleans LA(her gallery is fabulous!), EMILY JOHN-SON Lindsay ’96 in Black Mountain NC,WENDY BARNES McEntee inMemphis, ANNE WAGNER Shaver inRoanoke VA, and some great ’98 ladies(EMILY ALEXANDER Douglas, LAURAMcCARTER Stone, and ELIZABETHCALHOUN Swarr) in Nashville TN.LINDA “SUSIE” MCCORMICK writes,“Thanks in large part to my MBCdegree, I was recently named assistantvice president for information technologybudget administration at UVA. I thor-oughly enjoyed my experience at MBC,and my ADP advisor, Claire Kent, was aninspiration.” Last but certainly not least,ANNIE McGINLEY of Palmyra VA mar-ried Chuck Floyd in September with JENRAGAN DOROUGH Neylon ofMechanicsville as a bridesmaid andmany Squirrels in attendance.

1998Send your class notes to:Jennifer Lloyd [email protected] Faulkner Ridge Circle,Columbia, MD 21044LAURA LYNN HAWKS Ellis was named2010 teacher of the year for WesthavenElementary in Portsmouth VA. BROOKEBALDWIN Ludford married Ryan onOctober 24, 2009, in Grand Rapids MIwith ANN SCHMIDT and ELIZABETHCALHOUN Swarr in attendance. TheLudfords reside in Chicago IL. KATELANGLOIS Faraci and Steve welcomedson George Vincent on December 16,2009. He joins big brother Matthew (3).CYNTHIA FELGER Karch’s son, Hayden,just turned 1. Please join our classFacebook page Mary Baldwin Class of1998 to reconnect with classmates andto post your latest news and notes.

1999Send your class notes to:Engle Baker [email protected] 2921 Starnes Road, Charlotte, NC28214Greetings Ladies — our fellow class-mates have been busy in recentmonths. SHERRI SHARPE completedher tour at VMI and is stationed at FortRucker AL as Airfield OperationsBattalion Executive Officer. TORSKIDOBSON Arnold is enjoying her careeras a professional speaker, career coach,and resumé writer. She is also a con-tributing writer for Urban Views Weeklyand hosts a bi-weekly column on careerand job search tips to assist job seekersin their career success. KELLY MANNassisted with relief efforts in Haiti in

February and May. She traveled with agroup of medical professionals fromMount Sinai NY to the general hospitalin Port-Au-Prince. Kelly reports that whilethe country is still in desperate need ofassistance and supplies, the group wasable to provide some much needed sur-gical and pediatric services to thepatients in the hospital. (Read moreabout Kelly’s experience on page 7.) Shewill finish her clinical fellowship in pedi-atric infectious disease and her mastersin public health (global health track) atMount Sinai in this spring. She plans tostay at the hospital as a member of theresearch faculty for several more monthsto complete a research project withUNICEF and Instituto de InvestigacionNutricional in Lima, Peru. JENNIFERVERGNE Formagus bought a newhouse.

2000Send your class notes to:Blythe Slinkard [email protected] SANDONE Franz marriedFrank Michael “Mikey” Franz onDecember 31, 2009. JENNIFERHILLARD Cluff and LORRI WARDBeeney were bridesmaids. “My hus-band and I reside in National ParkNJ. This is my 6th year as an art teacherat Bunker Hill Middle School and myhusband is a mechanic and competitiverace car driver in the Big BlockModifieds at BridgeportSpeedway.” MICHELLE VALENTE Grantwrites, “I was married on May 19, 2007,to Thomas Grant. We had our first childTyler Thomas on August 4, 2008. We areliving in Northern VA.” CATARINAMONGE and Mark Craft, along with old-est daughter, Ava, welcomed a newaddition to their family, Isabella MongeCraft, on August 26, 2009.

2001 REUNION ’11Send your class notes to:Amberleigh [email protected] Jefferson Highway, Mineral, VA23117Not many updates to report this time,but it’s a busy time! CATHERINE“CATE” MITCHELL reports that sherecently relocated to Los Angeles CA.Lucky Cate got away from all the snow.ELIZABETH “Beth” PLEWES McKeelives in Fort Bragg NC with her husband,Matt, and two daughters, Isabelle (4)and Fionnuala (18 months). She is alawyer and adjunct faculty at the com-munity college. Matt is in the Army andthey are looking forward to having himhome. ELIZABETH “Bess” SCHULTZFlick and her husband reside inAlexandria VA. They have two children,Anne Laura (2) and Edward Elliot (6months). JESSICA SHAFFER Berry wel-comed her son, Rowe Jonathan, bornJanuary 21. LESLIE ST. JOHN reports:“Over the past five years, I have been onsix mission trips to Haiti. I have manyfriends and children there that I care fora great deal. I ask everyone to pray forand support as they can. I plan onreturning to La Gonave, Haiti in the fall.Otherwise, I am enjoying ministry in SC,and looking forward to the summer.”LAURA TAYLOR Hart writes: “I wel-comed a new son: Zachary John Hartwas born in November 2009. Followingthe still-birth of his big brother Nathaniel(in May 2008), Zachary John means‘God remembers; God is gracious.’ We

truly thank God for giving us this newgift of life. Big sister, Lindsey, is in lovewith Zachary and is a super big helper.Matthew and I are enjoying learning tojuggle the needs of two children.”MELINDA TODD Arnwine and her hus-band welcomed a daughter, EleanorJane, on December 9, 2009. She is ahappy and healthy baby. In October, theypurchased a house in Ashburn VA.

2002Send your class notes to:Anna Henley, class [email protected] [email protected]:www.myspace.com/mbc200reunionFacebook Group: Baldwin ’02 KYLENE CRAIG Thompson graduatedfrom Virginia Commonwealth Universityin 2009 with her master’s degree. ELIZ-ABETH “LIZ” BARROWS recentlymoved to Gurabo Puerto Rico — about45 minutes outside the capital of SanJuan — to a house in the mountainswith her 2 dogs and 2 cats. “We are lov-ing it,” she said. KATIE KOONTZ Fuñerecently received an award for educatorof the year from the Strasburg Chamberof Commerce. She has been teaching5th grade in Strasburg VA for 6 years.LESLEY LOVETT Carney’s husband,Sam, returned home from a deploymentto Afghanistan at the end of July 2009.During his deployment, they welcomedtheir first son, Samuel Edward, bornMarch 31, 2009. Thankfully, Sam wasable to be home for the birth for a fewweeks. Lesley writes, “We are all doingwell and happy to be reunited as a fami-ly again.” KATYSUE TILLMAN is living inNY where she has a tenure-track facultyposition at State University of New Yorkat New Paltz. She planned to defend herdoctoral dissertation in March and islooking forward to being a full-fledgedpsychologist. WINDSOR HALL Johnsonand her family welcomed 3rd childReagan Rae September 16,2009. William (4) and Lucas (3) love hav-ing a baby sister. Windsor stays homewith her children and teaches dance onenight a week. DELAINE PERRY Kaplanand her husband, Alex, welcomed theirfirst baby, Caleb Perry, on July 22, 2009.JESSICA PASINI Elsass, Jake, and son,Joey, moved to Dayton OH inSeptember. “Joey turned 1 on January19, the same day we found out Jakewas deploying. Joey and I will stay inDayton keeping busy with classes andMOPS. We hope all is well with theClass of 2002. It seems like everyonehas been so blessed this year withbabies and wonderful family life.” In a bitof late news, ALESANDRA PRICEDombroski married Anthony (Rudy) T.Dombroski III on November 5, 2005, intheir hometown of WilmingtonNC. Bridesmaids included DIONNAMCINTYRE Kiernan, KRISTEN BRYANTGould, SARAH LAYNE, andYOGIALMENDRAS. Alesandra and Rudyreside in Wilmington. BRANDY MCCLY-MENT has two children, Calista (5), andLilly (3). ELYSE RICHARDSON Barnardhas a 17-month-old daughter, Hallie Bea.KRISTA MALIA HONIG Boggs andBrad welcomed Benjamin Marcus onSeptember 18, 2009. “We live inGreensboro NC and are thrilled with ournew addition. It is so exciting that somany of us are having little ones at thesame time.”

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2003Send your class notes to:Brenna [email protected] M. MOSKOWITZ writes, “I’m inmy 3rd semester at VCU doing an accel-erated graduate degree to become aWomen’s Health Nurse Practitioner. I amscheduled to graduate in May 2012.”JENNIFER WOOD Cooper is closing onher first home.

2004Send your class notes to:Sarah [email protected] 404 N. Holliston Ave. #3, Pasadena, CA91106Kara Shy [email protected]’s been a short time since our lastupdate, but quite a few things (especiallyweddings) have happened. I still teachbiology and live in Los Angeles, and lovedseeing my classmates again at our annualmeeting. JORDAN ARMSTRONG waswed on January 2, 2010, in Staunton toPhilip Edward Denton, Jr. MBC attendeesat the wedding included WHITNEY FRO-STICK Milici, JENNIFER CARMANLovell, ANGELA FABER, KATHRYNSPICER ’06, ERIKA GIRALDO Smith,VICTORIA TEN BROECK ’05, ERINBALLEW O’Reilly, ASHLEY KIZLER ’05,MEGHAN WARD, KATHRYN PHILIPS,AMANDA BENNETT Lancaster ’03, andWENDY FOSCUE Armstrong’01.WENDY BATES Bartley was marriedin January 2009, and held a reception inApril 2010 when her husband returnedfrom deployment. KELLY BAUMGART-NER was married October 3, 2009, inHeidelberg, Germany. In attendance wereJESSICA DURBIN ’02, WENDY BATESBartley, and SANDRA MARTINEZ ’02.SARAH WALKER Baumgardner andhusband, Troy, welcomed their first child,Lydia Jane, on October 27, 2009. NICOLELITTLEJOHN had her second child,Nathan Daniel Joseph, on November 19,2009. MARISOL EUCEDA Murphy-Ballantyne was married October 30,2009, at Woodend Nature Sanctuary inChevy Chase MD. She walked down theaisle to “I Want to Hold Your Hand” byThe Beatles, sung by LESLIE RUEFF ’03.In attendance were AMELIA NUSBAUM’02, JULIE HAISLIP ’02, RIAN STEW-ARD ’01, JENNIE HILDENBRAND ’02,JENNIFER WEST Shipe ’02, ANNAHENLEY ’02, SARAH BRUNELLE,LESLIE RUEFF ’03, CRISSY MONETWatkins ’05, LINDSEY LIEBERMAN,BETSY TORRES, ERIN WELLS Kolbicka’04, HOLLY CURRY ’03, MORGANALBERTS Smith ’99, and ERINBERNACHE Alberts ’99. WilliamDouglas tells us that daughter, LAURIEDOUGLAS Frye, is technology coordina-tor for Cayman International School onGrand Cayman this school year.

2005Send your class notes to:Amy [email protected] [email protected] is a lot of exciting news from ourfellow classmates. Mary Baldwin Collegeis welcoming a new member to theirfamily. ERIN LASTER welcomed SarahElizabeth, born March 3, 2009, at St.Mary’s Hospital in Richmond. Her grand-mother is SARA NAIR James ’69, MBCprofessor of art history, godmother is

LACY WOOD ’07, and aunt is BROOKSLASTER Wheary ’98. Sarah was namedin honor of SARAH SMALL ’01. VERON-ICA STOKES van Montfrans([email protected]) received her mas-ter’s degree from University of Virginia inMay 2007. She was married in May 2008,and she and her husband moved toGainesville FL where he started work onhis PhD at University of Florida. Veronicais a high school biology teacher and girlssoccer coach, and says she loves it.LATOYA GUEST is serving as aCompany Commander at Fort JacksonSC for Advanced Individual Training sol-diers.

2006 REUNION ’11Send your class notes to:Heather [email protected] Harrison [email protected] [email protected] P.O. Box 183, Marshall, VA 20116The Class of 2006 is out making its markon the world. These are a few of thenotes that were gathered from a varietyof different sources. We want to thankeveryone who offered their commentsand ask that we have more contributionsfor future columns. It goes without say-ing that MBC made an impact on each ofour lives. Our 5-year Reunion is comingup in 2011, and we would like to bringback as many ’06ers as possible to revisitMBC and meet for cluster reunionswhere many of us live. If you have ideasor would like to help, please [email protected] PAJSKI has had two researcharticles published. SARAH OUTTERSONMurphy was married in August 2009 anda whole heap of classmates were pres-ent: KATHERINE Russell, KAYLEIGH DEROSA, NEBULA LI ’07, AMANDASIMON, COURTNEY CASBURN, ANDIDIXON ’04, MAHALA BURN ’07,SARAH “SR” BREWER, SARAH BENK-ENDORF, MARISSA GOLDBECK ’08,and DENISE KINSINGER ’09. CARAMAGOLDA Tucker was married toMatthew Tucker and is currently in herfirst year of Law at George MasonUniversity. MAGGIE EVES has a new jobas a PT tech in a new office and is takingclasses to get into a PTA program atNorthern Virginia Community College.LESLIE FONDREN lives in Alexandria VAand is a tradeshow management andevent planner at a software company.ANN BRANDER Harrison marriedBenjamin Harrison and works as directorof alumni relations at Randolph-MaconAcademy. JESSICA CARROLL movedfrom Chicago to Fredericksburg and isnow general manager of Daily Grind.HEATHER WAKEFIELD Regan was mar-ried to Dan Regan, moved from Chicago,and works as an admissions counselor atMBC. She is also working on her mas-ter’s through MBC. HOPE ALBRECHTBauer married Douglas Bauer, movedfrom AK to NJ, and is deployed in MDand waiting for her husband to returnfrom Afghanistan. LAURA RODGERSClark moved from Watertown NY to MDand welcomed a 10-pound baby girl, Gail.KELLY PECOTTE finished graduateschool in NM and moved to Alexandria,where she works for the Department ofDefense. KIMBERLY HINKLE Peelermarried J.W., retired from the MarineCorps, and owns her own personalgrooming business. They bought a housein February 2009. PATRICIA NADEAUearned her flight wings as a navigator in

the U.S. Air Force. She bought her firsthouse in NC. ELIZABETH “BETSY”JOHNSON attends Johns HopkinsUniversity to work toward her master’sdegree in bioscience regulatory affairs in2011. She works as a research programcoordinator for Bloomberg School ofPublic Health. ALIAH HINES earned hermaster’s degree, gave birth to AshantiIsadora Hines, and is working on obtain-ing her PhD in 2010. ANDREA JACK-SON recently bought a house in TX andgave birth to Nylah. She plans to earn herPhD in epidemiology and public health in2010. NERISSA DAVIS is studying toearn her master’s for professional coun-seling from Argosy University. MELISSABALDWIN received her master’s degreein education at MBC and teaches 7thgrade history in Staunton VA. KARIFRENZ works in the admissions office atFerrum College. She earned her master’sin education at Radford in 2007. PHYLLISGILMORE is an algebra teacher at SpringISD in Spring TX. HEATHER HAWKSlives and works in Lynchburg. She hasworked at StarTek Outsourcing Solutionsfor 4 years. LEIGH FRAME Petersonlives in Baltimore MD and will earn hermaster’s degree in health science fromJohns Hopkins in 2010. She marriedMatthew Peterson and works at JohnsHopkins Medical School as a researchcoordinator and polysomnogram techni-cian. RENEE HEWITT Monger and hus-band, Randy, welcomed Ryan RayMonger in July 2009.

2007Send your class notes to:Erin Baker [email protected] 113 NW 13th St. Apt. 206, OklahomaCity, OK 73103JENNA SPLAIN is working on her bach-elor of science degree in nursing atCedar Crest College in Allentown PA.She says she is glad to be at a women’scollege and spends her free time runningand mountain biking. ROSEMARY PAN-TALEO lives in Arlington VA and worksfor the DC Cancer Consortium, whereshe has just been promoted to programspecialist. ERIN BAKER Heely lives inOklahoma City with husband, Conor. Shevolunteers for Ronald McDonald HouseCharities and was able to meet up withfellow classmates NICOLE BRENNERand MEGAN JONES this summer atSaint Simon’s Island GA for a mini-reunion. NICOLE BRENNER is pursuinga degree at Florida State University inTallahassee and will graduate in May2011 with a juris doctor and a master ofscience in applied economics. She isenjoying the warm weather but missesthe seasons, mountains, and her sisterSquirrels. MEGAN JONES enjoys teach-ing first grade in VA Beach. BRITTANYBLEDSOE continues to help with earth-quake relief in Haiti, where she lives andis employed by the State Department.(See article, page 6.)

2008Send your class notes to:Katie [email protected] 7 Trotters Run, Thomasville, NC 27360KATHRYN “KATY” HANSON marriedRoss Hening on December 12, 2009. Inattendance were several fellow Squirrels:KATHRYN “KATIE” LUKHART,SAMANTHA ADATO, KELLIE WHIT-SON, BARRI SCOTT ’09, and JO FOR-REST ’10. SAMANTHA ADATO earned

her master’s degree in business with acertificate in information technology fromShenandoah University in December.

2009Send your class notes to:Sarah [email protected] “STACEY” WHITTENHarrison of Cartersville VA and husbandwelcomed their first child, a daughter,Carrington Whitten Harrison. KRISTINABANKS works for a software trainingcompany, The Moore Group. HANNAHGUARENDI has joined the military and isstationed in GA. PAMELA MENDOZA isliving in Japan, as is DEVON BURKE.DENISE KINSINGER will be in Englandat Durham University for the next 3years, and would welcome e-mail com-munication. KIMBERLY ZAJAC is inEngland for 18 months working on hermaster’s degree. ALICIA BORTONEHamel was married August 8, 2009, inRichmond VA to staff sergeant MarcelBenoit-Jacques Hamel. ClassmatesKESHIA TENORIO and SUSANPHILLIPS attended, as well as MBC stu-dents and staff ALICE DEES ’10,NANCY PANNILL ’10, HOLLY BREEN’11, KATHRYN STEPHENS ’10, andMelinda Brown.


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MARRIAGESPATRICIA “PATTY” PETIT Thompson ’60 toAllen Streater, May 25, 2009MARTHA GATES ’78 to ChristopherMawson, July 4, 2008FAYE KATHRYN ANDREWS Drawdy ’78 toDavid D. Drawdy, December 21, 2009SUSAN KLECK ’80 to Bruce Jordan, April25, 2009Rev. MEG BUERKEL ’96 to Rev. MichaelHunn, June 27, 2009ANNIE McGINLEY ’97 to Chuck Floyd,September 19, 2009BROOKE BALDWIN ’98 to Ryan Ludford,October 24, 2009BETHANY SANDONE Franz ’00 to FrankMichael “Mikey” Franz, December 31, 2009CHARLOTTE CHERRY AYCOCK ’00 toTimothy Martin McHale, June 20, 2009JENNIFER MCGEE ’01 to Peter Magelnicki,July 4, 2009BLAIRE HOWLE ’01 to Todd Pitcher, March21, 2009ALESANDRA PRICE ’02 to Anthony “Rudy”T. Dombroski III, November 5, 2005ADRIANNE BROWN ’02 to Howard KevinPayne, February 14, 2009ASHLYN DAVIS ’03 to Reuben Trant, August8, 2009ZAINAB ABDUL KHAHIR ’03 to Siddiq M.Abdul-Khabir, January 10, 2009HEIDI WOODCOCK ’03 to StephenMavrakes, September 6, 2009MARISOL EUCEDA ’04 to John ErnestoMurphy-Ballantyne, October 30, 2009

KELLY MARIE BAUMGARTNER ’04 to VirgilAlexander Rivera, October 3, 2009SHUKITA WHITAKER ’05 to Melvin R. Massey,October 10, 2009SARAH OUTTERSON ’06 to Bobby OuttersonMurphy, August 15, 2009MEGAN HUFFMAN ’06 to Jason Pajski, October24, 2009WHITNEY IVEY WARD ’06 to Andrew FessendenDana, March 28, 2009KATHRYN “KATY” HANSON ’08 to Ross Hening,December 12, 2009ALICIA BORTONE ’09 to Marcel Benoit-JacquesHamel, August 8, 2009AMANDA COLGROVE ’09 to David Cameron,September 19, 2009

ARRIVALSAPRIL KIRBY Ware ’96 and Earl: a daughter,McKenzie Grace, January 9, 2009TAMARA AVIS Smith ’96 and Jason: a son,Tucker Cobin, December 14, 2008WENDY BARNES McEntee ’97 and Colin: adaughter, Ellyn Alease Lavanna, October 26, 2009 SUSAN NICHOLS Wright ‘97 and Matthew: adaughter, Caroline Elizabeth on October 16, 2009SUZANNAH Meyer Zachos ‘97 and Nicholas: adaughter, Zoe Alyssandra, February 2, 2010LAUREN WARDER Gvillo ’97 and Jeff: a daugh-ter, Emily Katherine, November 27, 2009KATE LANGLOIS Faraci ’98 and Steve: a son,George Vincent on December 16, 2009AIMEE FAVREAU Dabney ’99 and Carter: a son,Frederick David, June 10, 2008

OUR CONDOLENCESto the following alumnae/i who lost loved ones

JANET WERNER Harris ’42, in the passing ofher husband, Vernie E. Harris, July 14, 2009MARTHA GODWIN Saunders ’48, in thepassing of her husband, R. Curtis Saunders,Jr., December 14, 2009TOMLIN “TOMMIE” HORNBARGER Scott’55, in the passing of her son, ThomasFranklin Clemmer III, August 10, 2009JANICE JONES Collins ’65 on the passing ofher son, Lt. Col. Wendell Lee Collins, USAF,August 23, 2009GALE PALMER Penn ’63, on the passing ofher husband of 21 years, Robert HubardPenn, November 28, 2009MARY DUDLEY Purtill ’67, on the passing ofher husband, Allan Leo Purtill, Sr., August 9,2009SHARON KNOPP Bares ’68, on the passingof her mother, Jenny Elder White Knopp,October 23, 2009SARAH BELL EASON Parrott ’73, on thepassing of her mother, Anna Belle BrownEason, December 23, 2009ELIZABETH CARY Spell ’74, on the passingof her husband, William Henry Spell, April 17,2009LEE WILEY Bowman ’74, on the passing ofher husband, Shearer Davis Bowman,December 4, 2009KELLY HUFFMAN Ellis ’80, on the passing ofher sister-in-law, Sarah Ellis Floyd, December11, 2009

CYNDI PHILLIPS Fletcher ’82, on the pass-ing of her mother, Ruth Iris Burnett Phillips,January 11, 2010JILL PARKER Kissinger ’95, on the passingof her husband, Harry “Flip” KissingerDecember 11, 2009KATHLEEN BECK Andes ’98, on the passingof her mother, Madeline Miller Beck,September 28, 2009

and other cherished members ofthe MBC family:

John Wasson, husband of Barbara Palmer,who passed away September 15, 2009.Palmer was affiliated with MBC as a scholar-in-residence and founded REED-USA at MaryBaldwin.

The family of John Spencer Kelly, whospent 20 years serving our students, staff andfaculty at MBC as director of safety and secu-rity. He passed away in December 2009.

Friends and family of Bonnie Marie Hohn,associate professor emerita at MBC1966–2003, who passed away December 10,2009.

Friends and family of Joseph M. GarrisonJr., professor emeritus at MBC 1965–2000,who passed away May 9, 2010.

Friends and family of Dorothy M. Mulberry,professor emerita at MBC 1958– 1994, whopassed away May 18, 2010.

DEATHSVIRGINIA LYON Johnson ’34, July 30, 2009HELEN WADE Dantzler ’36, April 24, 2009FRANCES HALBERT Russell ’37, July 1, 2009JANET HOLLIS Doswell ’38, July 19, 2009MARY LOUISE MCLENDON Atkinson Wall ’39, January 2, 2010ELIZABETH BANNER Hudgins ’39, July 19, 2009MARY FRANCES CLINE ’40, October 31, 2009NADINE PRIDEAUX Smith ’41, March 3, 2006ELIZABETH LUCK Stiles ’42, June 6, 2009GLORIA PARADIES Roth Mayer ’43, January 27, 2009MARY “SCOTTY” SCOTT Walton ’43, April 3, 2009BETTY WILLIFRED Bone ’44, December 13, 2009MARY LYNN ALDREDGE McEntire ’45, December 4, 2009E. RIVES POLLARD Houser ’45, October 18, 2009MARY SUE FELDMAN Marquette ’46, October 30, 2009FRANCES TURPIN WAGENER Tebbs ’46, August 5, 2009DONNA ELIZABETH HULL Jones ’47, December 14, 2009DOROTHY WALLACE Putnam ’48, January 6, 2010JEAN HUTCHINSON Hadlow ’48, January 9, 2010SHIRLEY DOAK Tabb ’50, May 28, 2009MARTHA “JO” HUNT Palmer ’50, December 28, 2008JACQUELINE BLACKMON Dixon ’50, February 3, 2009ALICE HUNTER Patterson ’50, June 25, 2009BARBARA CONLON Miescher ’50, July 19, 2009JEANNE ASHBY Furrh ’50, August 3, 2009ALICE BALL Watts ’52, October 10, 2009ANNE HALL DIXON Decker ’55, September 18, 2009MARY MALONE Lankford ’61, December 3, 2008SHIRLEY “JANE” LEWIS Huffman ’63, June 30, 2008JEAN KAVANAUGH PARKER ’67, April 15, 2010SANDRA HOLLIMAN Botton ’69, August 14, 2008ELIZABETH GATELY ’75, May 19, 2009MARYLOU SKIDMORE Wilson ’79, July 12, 2009DORIS FAYE WEBB McLear ’80, November 12, 2008SUSAN LEHMANN Griffin ’84, July 16, 2009ELIZABETH KILLAM ’93, September 3, 2009PATRICIA FERGUSON Brown ’00, November 14, 2009

JENNIFER HILLIARD Cluff ’00 and Colin: a daugh-ter, Hannah Elizabeth, February 23, 2007CARRIE WARREN Jones ’00 and Steven: a daugh-ter, Charlotte Temple, November 6, 2009CATARINA MONGE ’00 and Mark Craft: a daugh-ter, Isabella Monge, August 26, 2009AMY MITCHELL Howard ’00 and Matthew: adaughter, Elaina Marie, March 17, 2009MARY GREGORY Clapp ’01 and Eric: a son,Gregory Robert, December 17, 2008.CAROLINE BALLENGER Seale ‘01 and Joe: adaughter, Harriet Porcher, July 31, 2007MARY BOIVIN Leacock ’01 and Samora: a son,Sean Agustin, June 12, 2009KIRSTEN WELTON Shields ’01 and Josh: a daugh-ter, Hailey Lyn, February 14, 2009A’LEIGH COLLINS SPENSIERI Hamner ’02 andTracy: a son, Taylor Collins, June 10, 2009MALISSA deWINDT McClintock ’02 and Andrew:a daughter, Margaret Baker Morris, October 8, 2009KRISTA HONIG Boggs ’02 and Brad: a son,Benjamin Marcus, September 18, 2009LESLEY LOVETT Carney ’02 and Sam: a son,Samuel Edward, March 31, 2009WINDSOR HALL Johnson ’02 and Scott: a daugh-ter, Reagan Rae, September 16, 2009DELAINE PERRY Kaplan ’02 and Alex: a son, CalebPerry, July 22, 2009ZAINAB ABDUL KHABIR ’03 and Siddiq: a son,Abdul-Rahman, November 6, 2009KATHLEEN NEVIN Shea ’05 and Thomas: a daugh-ter, Megan Elizabeth, March 11, 2009ERIN TANNER Laster ’05 and Clark: a daughter,Sarah Elizabeth, March 3, 2009


SARAH OUTTERSON ’06said “I do to” BobbyOutterson Murphy August15, 2009.

KATHRYN “KATY” HANSONHening’s December 2009 weddingincluded 2008 classmates KATHRYN“KATIE” LUKHART and SAMAN-THA ADATO as bridesmaids (toprow). KELLIE WHITSON ’08, BARRISCOTT ’09, and JO FORREST ’10(bottom, right to left) also attended.

MBC alumnae at the wedding of ALESANDRA PRICE ’02 and Anthony (Rudy)Dombroski, November 5, 2005, left to right: DIONNA MCINTYRE Kiernan ’02, YOGIALMENDRAS ’02, TINA JEFFERSON Richardson ’79, ALESANDRA PRICEDombroski ’02, SANDRA LENNON Price ’66 (mother of the bride), CINDYMATTHEWS Roberts ’95, KRISTEN BRYANT Gould ’02, and SARAH LAYNE ’02.

FAYE KATHRYN ANDREWS ’78 andDavid D. Drawdy were married atDisney in Orlando and celebratedtheir honeymoon there.

Left to right: Cheryl Bartolomeo, Caitlin Campbell, MICHELLE VALENTE Grant ’00, Erinn Blazer, and ALISON MURPHY Wickersham ’00 atGrant’s wedding.

The wedding of CHARLOTTE “CHERRY” AYCOCK McHale ’00 and TimothyMartin McHale, took place in Houston TX. Pictured with Cherry (fourth from left)are MBC alums SUSAN COVINGTON Rothenberg ’00, STACEY BARROW Hill’00, DOLLIE MARSHALL Kelly ’00, JANE MATTOX Turner ’38, CLAUDIA TURN-ER Aycock ’66, EMILY STEWART ’00, CAITLYN WALZ Marsh ’98, and CHRISTI-NA SADLER Boykin ’00.

Many ’97 Squirrels came to celebrate the wedding of ANNIE McGINLEY toChuck Floyd in September 2009. Left to right: MELISSA CARNEYHemmingsen, ROBIN MATHENA Zombro, MICHELE LASTOVICABronnenberg, the bride, JEN RAGAN DOROUGH Neylon, and JILLPRESLEY Abenir.

ALICIA BORTONE ’09 and MarcelBenoit-Jacques Hamel (USMC)were married August 8, 2009 inRichmond VA.

With KELLY MARIE BAUMGARTNER ’04 at her wedding to VirgilAlexander Rivera in Heidelberg, Germany: JESSICA DURBIN ’02 (far left)and SANDRA CARMEN MARTINEZ ’04 (second from left). WENDYBATES ’04 also attended the event.

The Wedding Day of SARA MICHELLE BOYD Smith ’06.

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Megan Elizabeth Shea, daughter of KATHLEENNEVIN Shea ‘05 and Thomas. Born March 11,2009 in Baltimore MD.

William (4) and Lucas (3) Johnsonlove having a baby sister, ReaganRae, born September 16, 2009.They are the children of WINDSORHALL Johnson ’02 and Scott.

Caleb Perry Kaplan, born July 22, 2009,to DELAINE PERRY Kaplan ’02 andhusband, Alex.

MALISSA deWINDT MCCLINTOCK ’02 andAndrew welcomed daughter, Margaret BakerMorris McClintock, on October 8. She was 7lbs7.4 oz and 20.5 inches long.

Caroline Wright, daughter of SUSAN NICHOLSWright ’97.

Sister Squirrels at ERIN BAKERHeely’s wedding to Conor Heely inSeptember 2008, left to right: BREN-DA BAKER ’88, MEGHAN WARD ’04,KATIE SPICER ’06, ASHLEY KIZLER’05, MEGAN JONES ’07, AMANDAFOSKEY Norman ’05, the bride,Gladys the Squirrel, NICOLE BREN-NER ’07, CHRISTINA DIETTE ’09,EMILY YEAGER Rexrode ’05, ALISONKAUFMANN ’07, LACY WOOD ’08,and Dr. Pamela Fox.

Sarah Elizabeth Laster, anew member of the MBCfamily, daughter of ERINTANNER Laster ’05.

CARRIE WARREN Jones ’00 and Stevenof Lusby MD welcomed their first child,Charlotte Temple Jones.

DOROTHY IAFRATE Rudy ’65 andgranddaughter, Madeline.

Jack (9), Sean (7), and Lucy (3),children of LAURA RUHLEmery ’87 and Rick, enjoying asnow day in Charlottesville VA.

MICHELLE VALENTE ’00, son, Thomas,and husband, Tyler, at Christmastime.

Future “squirrel girls”Caroline Wright (daughter ofSUSAN NICHOLS Wright’97) and Zoe Wallace (daugh-ter of FRANCESCA RUSK-Wallace ’97) have startedthe bonding process early.


Sister Squirrels DEBBIE WUENSCH Hanes ’88, LISADRESSLER Garst ’88, MARY CHESS DONALDPitman ’87, and SUZ LOCHNER ’88 met in November2009 to celebrate Mary Chess’ birthday.

MARY COCKE Read ’92, husband, Kenneth,and son, Mitchell, (4) posed in front of theirhouse on February 8 for a snow day. “Wedon’t get snow often in Memphis, so wewere excited.”

Members of the class of 1993 gathered tocelebrate TRISH GREGORY Rand’s January 2009wedding, left to right: CAMILEE SHEAROUSESparkman, REBEKAH CONN Foster, CATHERINEODOM Quick, the bride, and HONEY JAFFETishgart.

KATIE KOONTZ Fuñe ’02, COURTNEY LEARD Wise’02, Krista Sherwood, and NELLY SEITZ SMITH ’03gathered for a holiday party at Katie’s home inDecember 2009.

Baldwin Alums in the DC area celebrated Apple Day atLima Restaurant and Lounge in DC. From left to right:MARIA KWON ’05, ASHLEY KIZLER ’05, BETSY TOR-RES ’04, two friends, KHALEELAH GILCREAST ’03, andYOGI ALMENDRAS Carroll ’02.

NICOLE BRENNER ’07, ERIN BAKER Heely ’07, andMEGAN JONES ’07 enjoyed a vacation at St. Simon’sIsland GA.

BRITTANY BLEDSOE ’07 with her horse, TicTac, at a stable in Haiti. See the story on p. 6about her work in the island nation.

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LYNNETTE DAUGHTRY Barrett ’02 proudly representedMBC at college night at Sickles High School in Tampa FL.

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What’s It Like … to set out to drive every road in Virginia? BY MELISSA JONES

Did you know? ! Miles of roads in VA: 70,105 ! Miles of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground

(which includes more than 10,000 listings on theNational Register of Historic Places): 180

! Miles the Tabers have traveled: More than theycan keep track of, certainly thousands.

It’s become a cliché that, when people retire, they headsouth to Florida’s sunny shores. Frances Wentz Taber ’62did the opposite. When she and husband Bo retired,they chose to leave Amelia Island, Florida, in search of anew adventure. They looked up and down the easternseaboard until, finally, Frances suggested settlingin Staunton.

“We love Virginia, we love Staunton, and we loveMary Baldwin,” she said. “My time at Mary Baldwinimpacted me immensely. It’s part of who I am.”

Bo added, “We think we’ve alighted in probably themost beautiful place in the entire country.” They foundmore than just a beautiful home in Staunton, they foundthe adventure they were craving.

For extensive history buffs — Frances was a histo-ry major at Mary Baldwin — the Shenandoah Valley isa perfect fit. Its centralized location puts them a stone’sthrow from the homes of their favorite historical figures,Robert E. Lee, Woodrow Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson,as well as the birthplaces and hometowns of many ofFrances’ ancestors. Staunton also has the honor of beingright on the outskirts of the Journey Through theHallowed Ground, an area extending from Charlottesvilleto Gettysburg that contains more U.S. history than anycomparable region.

And so, the Tabers began their quest to explore theentire Commonwealth of Virginia, starting with theShenandoah region and moving on to the HallowedGround. Their trips are usually 10 to 14 hours and theTabers always try to have some kind of connection tothe locale they visit, be it genealogy or a longtime inter-est in a person or place. They are especially exhilaratedby visiting the areas that were settled by Frances’maternal ancestors.

“It is overwhelming to walk on the land my ances-tors settled more than 300 years ago, to tour a house in

which my ancestors lived (such as Foster’s Castle, aplantation established in 1654, located on Route608 in New Kent County), or to enter churches in whichmy ancestors were founding vestry men (like St. Peter’sin New Kent County and Little Fork in CulpeperCounty),” Taber said. “When we’ve visited battlefields,we have truly been brought to tears. It is awe-inspiring torelive the strife, the suffering, the losses of morethan 600,000 men.”

Some places they visit, particularly in Lexington,remind Frances of her time as a student at Mary Baldwin.

“When I was in college, we always went to LeeChapel. Traveller (Robert E. Lee’s horse) used to be dis-played on the ground floor, fully stuffed,” she said, addingthat sometimes people would pull a hair out of his tail fora souvenir.

“At Lee Chapel, we paid our best respects to Leeand then we paid our respects to Traveller. That was justsomething that everyone did in Lexington, (even) on a date.”

No stranger to travel, Frances toured Europefor eight weeks when she was 17 and later lived inJapan for three years. Bo spent seven years backpackingacross the globe. They later took their two children tovisit almost every U.S. state and every region inCanada and Mexico. Since starting their retirementadventure three years ago, the Tabers have beento dozens of sites from the obscure to the renowned.Just before their interview in February, they visitedJefferson’s retreat, Poplar Forest, (near Lynchburg onRoute 661) where they were enthralled by the planta-tion’s architecture and history.

No matter where they go, one thing is constant: goingthere is just as magnificent as getting there.

“We can travel to sites in Virginia in a day,” Francessaid. “So often people don’t know what’s in their ownbackyard.”

“It’s nice to do something for my home-town and to create something that’sfocused on the place where I live.”That was the philosophy that guidedDeidre Hiner ’09 to create a book high-lighting small businesses in HighlandCounty, Virginia.

Her original 82-page paperback, Voices of Small Town Business: Portraits ofMonterey, Virginia, started as her seniorhonors thesis, an interdisciplinary projectthat combined her studio art major (doubleemphasis in photography and graphicdesign) with her interest in public history.Inspired by Jeff Wolin, a photographerknown for his ability to create strikinglypersonal images, Hiner decided to depictthe lives of small-town business owners inher hometown.

“[Wolin’s] photos exhibit somethingabout the people and serve as a vehicle

for the individuals’ messages, which insome cases are written directly on thephotos. I wanted to capture the sameidea, but with some of the business peo-ple in Monterey. Living in a small townincorporates some unusual qualities tolife. I wanted to show how, in such a smallcounty, we are all closely connected,” saidHiner, noting that the town’s populationhovers around 160.

It was easy for Hiner to pickMonterey as her focus; choosing whichstores to feature was a little harder.

“In the end, I decided to pick storesowned by people I knew,” Hiner said.“They felt comfortable around me, so theyopened up more.”

Voices of Small Town Business focus-es on the H & H Cash Store; Evelyn’sPantry; The Highland Inn; and MariahBoone: Custom, Vintage, and EstateJewelry. Hiner’s interviews with owners,workers, and customers of each businessare printed in full in the book. “I wanted togive the interviewees their own voicesinstead of just interpreting what they saidand then writing down what I thoughtthey meant, like so many other [historical]books do,” she said.

In addition to interviews, the book fea-tures photographs of the interviewees,their businesses, and the surrounding areato give readers a sense of life in HighlandCounty. Hiner also included photographs ofthe area from the early 1900s to show howit has changed during the past 100 years.

Now in its second edition, Voices ofSmall Town Business features more pho-

tos and a layout designed by Hiner. She’sconsidering writing a similar book aboutbusinesses in downtown Staunton, anoth-er area rich in local history.

Hiner credits two professors in particu-lar for helping her get started, AssistantProfessor of Art Jim Sconyers, who helpedher mold her thesis to her areas of study,and Edmund Potter, adjunct assistant pro-fessor of history, who helped her with thetechnical parts and interviewing techniques.

Daniel Métraux, professor of AsianStudies, reviewed the book in a 2009 vol-ume of the Augusta Historical Bulletin,commenting that “Hiner’s exploration ofthe lives of 15 Monterey residents pres-ents an excellent social portrait of bothMonterey and Highland County. Hiner’sinterviews capture the strong personali-ties of her subjects and the flavor of therustic environment. [She] has broughtHighland County to life though her splen-did work!”

Since its publication, Hiner hasreceived praise from many members ofthe Monterey community. “One womantold me that she bought the book andread the whole book the same daybecause she just couldn’t put it down.”Hiner said. “Another person asked whenmy next book was coming out.”

You probably won’t find Voices ofSmall Town Businesses at your localbookstore — yet — but the first editionis available in Grafton Library at MBC(complete with DVD recordings of herinterviews) and you can e-mail Hiner for acopy at [email protected].

What’s It Like … to publish a book right after graduation? BY MELISSA JONES

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